Comment Sealand Abandoned? (Score 1) 151
Ryan wrote:
I've never actually heard the "Sealand abandoned due to bad weather" story, and the Royal Family of Sealand, who are involved in management, deny that such an event ever occured. (I think another tower or radio ship from the pirate radio days may have been abandoned due to weather, but not Sealand.)
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It certainly does not make sense that Sealand would be abandoned in bad weather because:
1.) The towers are built up from the sea floor. It is not a boat to be tossed about in the waves.
2.) The water around it is 20 - 30 feet deep, and the deck is nearly twice that distance above the surface of the water. Therefore if you imagine waves with peaks and troughs, the highest they could ever get before exposing sea bottom would not be high enough to put them over the top of the structure.
3.) I am fully convinced that despite any possible danger, Prince Roy would stay and see it through to the end.
4.) Even though the Sealand island/fortress has stood strong for 60 years, let us imagine a storm so terrible that the people of Sealand feared for their saftey. In such weather conditions, no helicopter could possibly land and no boat would be safe. How could they possibly leave?
I think that this rumer is almost certainly bleed over from the story of one of the pirate radio ships, as Ryan suggests.
--Sean
I've never actually heard the "Sealand abandoned due to bad weather" story, and the Royal Family of Sealand, who are involved in management, deny that such an event ever occured. (I think another tower or radio ship from the pirate radio days may have been abandoned due to weather, but not Sealand.)
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It certainly does not make sense that Sealand would be abandoned in bad weather because:
1.) The towers are built up from the sea floor. It is not a boat to be tossed about in the waves.
2.) The water around it is 20 - 30 feet deep, and the deck is nearly twice that distance above the surface of the water. Therefore if you imagine waves with peaks and troughs, the highest they could ever get before exposing sea bottom would not be high enough to put them over the top of the structure.
3.) I am fully convinced that despite any possible danger, Prince Roy would stay and see it through to the end.
4.) Even though the Sealand island/fortress has stood strong for 60 years, let us imagine a storm so terrible that the people of Sealand feared for their saftey. In such weather conditions, no helicopter could possibly land and no boat would be safe. How could they possibly leave?
I think that this rumer is almost certainly bleed over from the story of one of the pirate radio ships, as Ryan suggests.
--Sean
