Snazy

Had a random convo with my aunt today who was talking about her ashes being scattered. She is trying to work out where the tides in Colwyn Bay flow to, as in global currents etc.

Needless to say, she wants to know where her ashes would "end up" if scattered there.

And yes, i know and she is fully aware of the reality of how ashes behave in air and water lol, but it's a nice gesture.

Any help appreciated.

zip106

Ultimately, she could end up in de-salination in Saudi, being swallowed by an Arab...

It's a thought....

Snazy

Lol or washed up on the beach in Rhyl.
Like I say it's the thought that counts, hence trying to find out for her least i can do for her right now.

Jimbob

iTrader: (13)

Best off doing it from the Holyhead to Dublin ferry, as mid channel she`d have a good change of covering a wide area geographically.

But to cover an area the medium has to float, as heavy stuff sinks.
BUT theoretically the stuff can easily cover the world.



Also remember this story??
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...r-journey.html

dpb

Reeds almanac

gpssti4

iTrader: (6)

I'd be more worried about the wind as you don't want any blow-back.

DCI Gene Hunt

I know about tides and currents all right, but there's worse out there than tides and currents, let me tell you a little story about the Indianapolis, one that'll make you city living blackberry using boys think twice about getting involved with the ocean.

Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know, you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail.

Well, we didn't know. `Cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like `ol squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark would go for nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye.

When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.

Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosom's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist.

Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He'd a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up.

You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

Snazy

Just what I was looking for cheers mate.
I said I will take some of her and mum to whatever countries I go to too lol

She will lie the direction of that flow

Leslie

I think that is the best idea Snazy, but I think it is possible to find local tidal movements at different times of the tide on the net as well.

Les

Snazy

Yeah now I know she would be heading north that's the pan we will follow, but as you say timing is everything .

She wants to end up in the icy parts of the world, could just fly north to do it too.

dpb

She may end up half way up the Mersey..!

Snazy

God help her!
In all reality i don't think it matters, just the thought that counts.
But after the comment of the sea, she mentioned wanting to be up by the ice packs, so I might just arrange a trip to so it that way instead

Leslie

I tried to find the tidal currents around that area Snazy but it seems difficult to find the info' unless you are prepared to pay. Bit mean i think, all designed for Yachties I bet.

Les

Snazy

Cheers Les, appreciate the effort mate. I'm sure I can look into it, if it needs paying for I will dig a little deeper
I am gonna look into the cost and logistics of a trip far north too, could be interesting.

DCI Gene Hunt

I'll save you looking

benno22

iTrader: (12)

stick her ashes on a UPS flight to the states, every chance she'll be her very own 'ash cloud' when it blows up at 30,000 ft and she'll circle the entire globe in a day or so

LUCKO

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DCI - (Robert Shaw)

Snazy

Or a Fedex one, I get 75% discount with them lol
DCI, that would be super cool lol, but i dont quite think it can afford that.

dpb

Couldnt you just flush at 35 000 feet over the atlantic

DCI Gene Hunt

Having your ashes encapsulated with a few turds in "blue ice" until you arrive in the Atlantic 5 minutes later for a slow thaw ain't my idea of the afterlife ...

For that reason I'm out

Snazy

Lol nicely put.

Na if something is worth doing, I would rather do it properly.

dpb

Just a thought ...

Jamie

http://www.a1surf.com/UK-Wales/Surf-...s-Country.aspx