Sailor's take heed!

[Boats]

Found this article and thought it may be of some interest.

[sn-e3]

Boats you are dead right I have lost three shipmates to asbestoes and five more are fighting it now. it was everywhere on the ship

[Boats]

It may be related to lung cancer but if you're a smoker you will play hell getting them to OK benefits. I think there is a test they can do in your lungs to see if it was asbestos or smoking that's killing you. Yea I still smoke and I shouldn't but so far the only cancer I got was bladder type and this could've been from exposure to agent orange they are telling me.

[Boats]

I used to sleep under the No. 3 catch wire and during flight ops being in the top bunk you would wake up in the morning covered in white asbestos dust. I'm sure when I get my ortopsy they will find asbestos in me - but for now I'm grateful to just be alive and kicking.

[SparrowHawk62]

Boats, us sailors delt with that stuff up untill the early 80's, we wore no gloves or masks, applied it with our bare hands in most cases. Be I have some floating around in me too!

For what's it worth, my division slept under the three wire as well, it ran right through our berthing area. I had a middle bunk.
03-212-4L on the USS Independence.