Young Buna-The Lucky One

[Jimbuna]

Just received an email from young Buna stating he is navigating his ship MV Ryndam (with the aid of a local Pilot) full of wealthy American tourists around Tromso/Hakoy showing them the final resting place of the Tirpitz...the jammy/lucky bugga!!

[Schroeder]

Pics, or it didn't happen!

[FIREWALL]

Lucky you Jim. He took the time to email. Shows good upbringing.

And you helped a bit too !

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

Pics, or it didn't happen!

Hardly....he's Third Officer on the bridge taking directions off a local pilot

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

Lucky you Jim. He took the time to email. Shows good upbringing.

And you helped a bit too !

Thank you Sir

[Oberon]

Very nice. Hope he's got a good pilot, those fjords can be tricky.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Very nice. Hope he's got a good pilot, those fjords can be tricky.

*from an email minutes ago*

Yeah it was amazing to see the buoy out the water which marked the location and to find out whats only a shallow distance beneath it, so hopefully next time we will go to the shoreline were it is, the pictures the pilot had were unreal of underwater images as the norwegians won't regard it as a resting place as they hate the Germans so there is no protection over the area, basically anyone can dive around it and have a look but its a really remote area so not many people get close to it!!!

[Alex]

Very cool !

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Alex

Very cool !

Cheers Alex

[Onkel Neal]

Nice, always glad to read news like this, you should be proud, he's doing good.

Jim,

Quite reading your Wifes E-Mails!


Seriously? I'm feeling proud with you Mate!
I hope to read more adventures from the up and coming COB.

[TarJak]

I'll have to work out how to become a rich American so I can afford to go on a trip like that. Sounds like he's having a wonderful time.

[Jimbuna]

Cheers Neal, Jeff, Grant....your all so kind.

I should have posted the paragraph that preceded the one above first

Dad you would have been well chuffed today, the cruise has been really good so far, at the moment we are up past the arctic circle so it's constant sunlight all day plus today we were at Tromso and I saw the wreck area of the Tirpitz, the German world war 2 boat which was bombed by the RAF in 1944. The pilot gave me the whole history of it and I have to say it looks amazing as they informed me there is still all of the remains on the sea bed, we sailed 4 mile away from it but next time we are hoping for the pilot to take us to the island of Hakoy which is the coastline of where she sunk and see the craters in the land plus she's only about 5 metres under the water!!!
I shall keep you posted, I thought you would have wanted to know about that

[Reece]

One lucky lad you have there Jim, he should be able to get free passes for his Mum & Dad, it's only right!!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Reece

One lucky lad you have there Jim, he should be able to get free passes for his Mum & Dad, it's only right!!

Actually he's working on that....we nearly got a free cruise to Alaska last year but the ship was fully booked.

His mum wants to be on a cruise on his particular ship when he is on duty and whilst I can understand her feelings I'm not so sure that is such a good idea.

His ship MV Ryndam is not the newest in the Holland-America fleet but for some reason I can't fathom out it is usually the first to be fully booked.

Mrs Buna saya "That's because James is so good at his job"

[Oberon]

She's a lovely ship.

So long as Mr Ehlert is no longer on board.