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Washington state has the nation's biggest ferry system. One ferry run there gets canceled for rough seas more than any other. Two hundred times a year, the Keystone ferry can?t leave the dock because of dangerous currents in Admiralty Inlet, north of Seattle. Oceanographers are now flying through the Inlet's turbulent depths in a virtual-reality Puget Sound. In part four of his series, ?As the Sound Churns,? producer John Ryan reports from the bow of the M-V Klickitat.
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KUOW-Seattle, Oct. 19, 2006
Transcript
(FX: gull, ferry wake)
FEWER PASSENGERS RIDE THE KEYSTONE FERRY THAN ANY OTHER IN PUGET SOUND. BUT THE STATE IS PLANNING TO SPEND UP TO SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS TO MAKE THE CROSSING SAFER. FERRY CAPTAIN TIM MCGUIRE KNOWS ADMIRALTY INLET WELL.
McGuire: ?This is a nasty stretch of water."
STRETCHING BETWEEN WHIDBEY ISLAND AND THE NORTHEAST TIP OF THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA, ADMIRALTY IS THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO PUGET SOUND. IT?S ALSO A FIVE-MILE-WIDE FUNNEL FOR WEATHER AND WAVES COMING OFF THE PACIFIC.
McGuire: ?It stretches out that way all the way to Japan, a long ways for the wind to drive the waves. The waves will come and slam into Whidbey Island and bounce back off of Whidbey Island. So you get waves coming in all different directions some times, just one spot you can?t do anything right, you?re just going to get beat up.?
IN BIG STORMS, CARS ON THE CAR DECK HAVE BOUNCED INTO...
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Washington state has the nation's biggest ferry system, and one ferry run there gets canceled for rough seas more than any other. Two hundred times a year, the Keystone ferry can?t leave the dock because of dangerous currents in Admiralty Inlet, north of Seattle.
Oceanographers are now flying through the Inlet's turbulent depths in a virtual-reality Puget Sound.
In part four of his series, ?As the Sound Churns,? producer John Ryan reports from the bow of the M-V Klickitat. [CLICK-a-TAT]
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