Ship Sinking in Antarctic

[7Psych]

Originally Posted by TXS-ALAMO

The most unlucky couple were interviewed this morning. They were on their honeymoon in Costa Rica and were evacuated because of a tropical storm and went home to Malibu, California to find their new house in the wildfire zone and then left for their trip to Antartica. Hope their marriage is not as disaster prone!

BULL!!!!!!!!! Just THINK about that being anyway logical..."Our house just burned to the ground, so we'll just leave for our Antarctic cruise????" Yeah...Hello....

[AjariBonten]

Dude, take a pill ......

Originally Posted by 7Psych

BULL!!!!!!!!! Just THINK about that being anyway logical..."Our house just burned to the ground, so we'll just leave for our Antarctic cruise????" Yeah...Hello....

That sounds like an urban-legend in the making. Have you got a link? If true, I'd love to document it!

from the very next post

Same idea...... but a little more civil?,

It's not like he just pi$$ed on the baby Jesus or something....

[nolatom]

Originally Posted by TSteele65

My wife and I were talking about this at dinner, and I came to the conclusion that, as a passenger, I would have felt that I got my money's worth on this trip. Think about it - how many people can say they hit an iceberg in the Antarctic and lived to tell about it?

I hope the passengers agree with you, but at any rate, I do. They took this cruise because they're adventurers, no? Otherwise, they'd have been on a Carnival ship in the Caribbean. The nature of an adventure is the risk of not coming back from it. They all did (regrettably the ship did not), so it would seem they got much more adventure than they "paid" for.

It's nice we can semi-joke about it, since all are safe. This could easily have turned out awful, thank God it didn't.

[T34C]

Originally Posted by TrueBlue

One of my biggest clients and his wife went on an Antarctic expedition on the Explorer earlier this year. Upon returning, they both attended a site meeting wearing the signature, insulated red parkas with the ship's emblem embroidered on the breast - oblivious to what was to occur a few months later.

Good timing on his part in booking that trip, I'd say. But good timing was what gave him such immense wealth. I'll bet those parkas are worth a lot more now than when they purchased them.

If those parkas had internal flotation, I'd guess they reached their peak value last weekend.

[nolatom]

Thanks to the captain and crew of the "Nordnorge" ("North Norway")? Without them, this might have been a different story. And to the crew of the Explorer. In many sinkings at sea, the list of the ship prevented the launching of the lifeboats, or half the lifeboats. From the photos, it looks as though they focused on getting them launched and getting passengers in them, before the list would have made it impossible.

[poopdeckpappy]

Originally Posted by 7Psych

BULL!!!!!!!!! Just THINK about that being anyway logical..."Our house just burned to the ground, so we'll just leave for our Antarctic cruise????" Yeah...Hello....

No, that's pretty much what happened, they were evacuated last month because of the fires, went to Costa Rica and was evacutaed because of a TS and ended up on the ship that sunk.

I think the only difference in the two stories is they were from San Diego and they didn't lose their house, they just evac'ed

[Sapperwhite]

From the "other" thread

Originally Posted by nolatom

Here's a photo, and understand the damage shows here, looks like a *long* indent/fracture, which with the black color may have clipped a bunker tank too.

http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,...41,00.html#9_0

So it looks like multi-compartment damage. Evidently the "fist-size" hole report came through the PR department first.

Since she listed opposite the damage, maybe they tried to transfer ballast to stbd, then got surface-effected? But even if so, this may have slowed her sinking, since the large breach (assuming we're seeing it right) thereby rolled above the waterline, leaving a series of smaller openings (vents, portholes?) to take her down more slowly.

Speculation on my part, for sure. But I wouldn't rush to slam the DC efforts (or lack thereof) without more information from plans, naval architects, and especially those on-scene.

Who the hells fist is that big, the jolly green giant? "Fist Sized" relative to who exactly?