On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Tuck <tuck12@comcast.net> wrote: > Anne, > > Does not the Kirkwall Hospital have a helicopter for emergency > airlifts? T he quotes I heard on the video clip were about football > teams getting to matches, not appendectomies. > No idea, but I do know that helicopters are a heck of a lot more expensive. > > Sure, having a fast boat is a good idea, but let's hope it doesn't > spur so many more that the lovely slower ferries You are definitely a romantic! ;+) > are pinched out of > business. Of course they won't be, since the small fast boats can't > carry cars, cows, nor much else but people. > Exactly. There will always be a need for them > > As for the oil spill in the Gulf, it is a world problem, not a local > one. And as for this link being only about genealogy, I never heard > that and wouldn't be interested if it was so limited. > Yes. In fact when it started (under Sigurd) it was distinctly NOT for genealogical questions... Anyway, before fast boats and helicopters, I'd wager many a life or limb was lost if there was no doctor or nurse on the island-- does anyone know the extent of medical coverage off the mainland? Anne > > Tuck > On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Slater Anne wrote: > > > Unless you're on Stronsay and need to have your appendix out NOW.... > > > > There's a time and place for everything, and I'll bet that the fare > > for the > > high-speed passenger-only ferry will keep people from using it > > frivolously. > > Anne Slater > > > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Tuck <tuck12@comcast.net> wrote: > > > >> I'd rather thought that the essence of Orkney was not about speed. > >> > >> > >> Tuck > >> On Jun 16, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Bruce Fletcher wrote: > >> > >>> You have to put up with an advert at the start of the clip! > >>> <http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-070610-n1-ferry> > >>> -- > >>> Bruce Fletcher > >>> Stronsay, Orkney > >>> <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com > >>> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > >>> the body of the message > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com > > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > > the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >