European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday april 20, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 a. Angler rescued after 5 Days at sea Savannah a. Apr a com Merical Fisherman whose boat capsized last week said wednesday he frequently heard voices and prayed a lot during the five Days he spent a without food a floating in a wooden Box. Nathan Neesmith 32, of Darien ga., told reporters he did no to know Why the 34-foot boat Casie Nicole Sank on the morning of april 12. A fall i know is water came in and it came in fast a said Neesmith still appearing fatigued on his third Day in the Hospital. Neesmith said that As he drifted in the Atlantic he splashed water on his face and tried to avoid drinking the Salt water. He Felt at times he would not survive he said. A i heard people talking to me a Neesmith said. A i drifted along. I heard people Yelling out a Nathan a id jump up and look around. I thought it was somebody. Here i am looking around and it was Only the Good lord keeping me earlier wednesday the coast guard said it suspended its search for three Crew members still missing. They Are Neesmith a brother Billy Joe Neesmith 23 his Nephew Keith Wilkes 18 and Franklin Brantley 23, a a i Nathan Neesmith is comforted by his wife Sheila after his five Day ordeal at sea. Apall of Darien. He was rescued monday about 20 Miles cast of Hilton head Island s.c., by a passing pleasure boat. Neesmith was reported in fair condition at memorial medical Center where he was treated for hypothermia and dehydration. Or. Carl Boyd director of the trauma Center said he expected Nec Smith to make a full recovery and to be released this weekend. The boat was found monday night about 45 Miles off the coast by a coast guard plane said Petty officer 2nd class Brett Farrell of the to Yacc Island Rescue station. A subsequent search turned up Only a life Vest and sleeping bag about five Miles from the Rescue Point. Neesmith said he and his three companions were about 65 Miles offshore when the boat began taking on water. He said they had food and a raft and he was confident they will be found. There was no explanation of How he came to be in the Box and the others in the life raft. A people Are praying for us All Over the world and if they can be found we re going to find them. We re sure Gonna try anyway a Neesmith say spate of quakes pure coincidence los Angeles apr scientists say its Only coincidence that earthquakes rocked Asia Indiana and three parts of California this week. A you do get the impression these things Are related when they happen Over a Large area at about the same time a geophysicist Don Anderson of the California Institute of technology in Pasadena said wednesday. A but when you do the statistics after the fact a link Between these quakes never holds up. They do seem to be happening at on tuesday a quake estimated at 6.2 to 6.4 on the Richter scale rocked China a Northwest Border with the soviet Union. In the los Angeles Basin seismologists recorded a magnitude-4.6 aftershock and several smaller aftershocks of the magnitude-5.5 Upland quake of feb. A temblor of magnitude 2.5 to 3 jostled Rural Eastern Indiana. On wednesday about 75 quakes a including one measuring 5.4 a entered around Watsonville Calif., rattled the san Francisco Bay area. Also wednesday a major quake measuring 7.5 rocked the celebes sea Between Indonesia and the Philippines and Small quakes rattled Southern californians desert near Indio. Scientists also dismissed As pure coincidence the fact that tuesdays temblor happened exactly six months after the earthquake that killed nearly 70 people in the san Francisco Bay area on oct. 17, or that the series of quakes that rattled the Bay area on wednesday happened on the anniversary of the catastrophic quake of 1906. Most also believe that its Only by Chance that so Many quakes happened during a two Day period this week. A if you look up history this kind of coincidence happens Many times a said Cal tech seismologist Hiroo Kanamori. A i done to think it is really statistically but Anderson said its conceivable the temblor in three regions of California Are linked by a gradual buildup of stress As the Pacific plate of the Earth a crust moves past the North american plate along the san Andreas and related faults. A we figured it was All Over a Robert Tolleson a former Watsonville resident who was visiting there said of wednesdays quakes. Quot but the Powers off. The phones dead helicopters Are flying All Over. Its like its starting All Over the National earthquake information Center in Golden colo., reports 1,200 to 1,500 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or larger worldwide every month said Pat Jorgenson . Geological Survey spokeswoman in Menlo Park Calif. A a it a not unusual that two or More moderate to Large earthquakes would occur on the same Day a she said. The entire Earth wobbles As it rotates because of tides atmospheric pressure wind friction and changes in the planet s molten Core. Most scientists believe forces Are too Small in any local area to cause quakes. But Anderson said a in places where the Earth a crust is very close to the breaking Point they might be just enough to trigger he also said a Long term buildup of stress on the Boundary Between the Pacific and North american plates could cause widely separated clusters of quakes in California. . Navy a Accident record in 1989 was decades 2nd Best group says Washington up a two thirds or the 1,596 accidents actually suffered by the . Navy in the 1980s went unnoticed and unreported the Greenpeace organization said wednesday. I to a report entitled a naval safety 1989 the year of the Accident a the organization said the Navy a Accident record last year contrary to belief was actually one of its safest of the decade. A the explosion aboard the battleship Lowa and the safety stand Down focused National attention on the . Navy a Accident record last year a said Greenpeace research coordinator Josh handler co author of the report. J9.ne year after a fiery explosion in one of the Iowa a massive gun turrets killed y sailors relatives of Many of the Vic su18. Are sti11 seeking the truth about what went wrong. Some families suspect faulty equipment or a Freak Accident involving the r u a Unpi Der used for unauthorized High explosive experiments. Some say the cause will never be known. But Many of them agree that the Navy a investigation was badly flawed and reject its conclusion that the april 19 blast a most probably was the work of gunners mate 2nd class Clayton m. Hartwig 24, of Cleveland whom the Navy called despondent and suicidal. A contrary to popular belief 1989 was by no Means the Navy a worst year for sheer numbers of accidents a the report said. It said the Navy had 106 accidents in 1989, second fewest of the decade behind the 1988 total of 83. The Navy registered 248 accidents in 1981. While the Navy said it had 69 major accidents involving ships and 43 involving aircraft in 1989, for a total of 112, it agreed with Greenpeace that 1988 and 1989 a were two of our safest years in recent naval Greenpeace which obtained previously unreleased Navy records said that 990 Navy accidents during the 1980s a or two thirds of the total a went unreported by the news Media. A forty percent of the 1,596 . Navy accidents during the 1980s happened to nuclear powered submarines a Greenpeace said. A one Quarter 161 of the submarine accidents involved strategic ballistic missile Amy Wickenheiser co author of the report said a secrecy is a serious obstacle to a full accounting of naval safety. Until the Public knows the extent of the danger posed by these accidents it is impossible to fully assess the Greenpeace said that worldwide the worst Accident of 1989 was the sinking of a soviet Mike class nuclear submarine off Norway in april. The organization said the soviet Accident raised the number of nuclear warheads on the Ocean floor from 48 to 50, and the number of naval nuclear reactors from seven to eight. The report concluded that about half of the 99 ships and submarines involved in accidents worldwide in 1989 were nuclear capable mainly aircraft carriers and sentenced to 25 years for disco murder new York up a a Man who killed a Man who stepped on his toe at a crowded disco was sentenced wednesday to the maximum of 25 years to life in prison. A this is a super violent person Quot said Justice Robert Haft in sentencing Steven Dixon 23, in state supreme court. Dixon was convicted of second degree murder for gunning Down Rupert Millington 24, on aug. 3, 1985. Assistant Manhattan District attorney Walter Arsenault said Dixon committed a a cold blooded preplanned ruthless murder. Motivated by the fact that the victim had acc Dently stepped on his foot at a crowded the incident occurred in july 1985 when Dixon tracked Millington Down to a disco at 146th Street and Broadway and killed him
