Like a scene From the Titanic

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Wahad

Wahad

There's apparently varying stories out, with some of the crew claiming the captain steered a course to close to the coast despite warnings of shallow seabed, and the captain claiming the rock that they bumped into wasn't on the charts. Technology is all well and good, but they don't compensate for human errors.
 
Gared

Gared

Most recent I've heard is that the captain tried to take a "tourism" route, a route closer to the island that the tourists on the island appreciate because it lets them see the ship better. A different cruise ship did the same thing last year and the ship's captain was given an official thank you for it from whomever is in charge of said island (governor, mayor, whatever), and this guy was trying to do the same. The difference is, the captain last year was 300 yards out from the island, well safe of the reef, and this guy was 150 yards out, and hit the reef; while he was off the bridge dining with passengers (on cruises it's not uncommon to have a captain's table with the option for passengers to dine with him, so the fact that he wasn't at the helm isn't all that big an issue by itself). It's amazing how quickly the official tune from the cruise line went from Carnival saying that the captain did nothing wrong to Costa saying that it's the captain's fault. I'd be interested to know if any of the junior officers are disciplined for not refusing to accept the course he set and putting the ship on a safer course, and interested to know if the passengers' account that there was no safety training at the beginning of the voyage is true or not; because if that's true, Carnival could be seeing a massive, massive fine over this one.
 
GasBandit

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Frankly I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. I've often wondered how long before some cruise ship plows ashore (ok, this wasn't ashore), what with all the ferried ramming into their moorings we've had lately.

Cruise ships are mass graves, defying death on a quirk of physics. That anyone is calm on one blows my mind - don't they know even in the best of circumstances, they're bobbing precariously above 2 miles of cold, black liquid funeral full of lovecraftian horrors?
 
North_Ranger

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Shegokigo said:
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Indeed, boss. Now, can we talk about my hazardous work bonus? *hides blowtorch*

GasBandit said:
Frankly I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. I've often wondered how long before some cruise ship plows ashore (ok, this wasn't ashore), what with all the ferried ramming into their moorings we've had lately.

Cruise ships are mass graves, defying death on a quirk of physics. That anyone is calm on one blows my mind - don't they know even in the best of circumstances, they're bobbing precariously above 2 miles of cold, black liquid funeral full of lovecraftian horrors?
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Duty-free shopping, all-you-can-eat buffets and one-night stands. That's about the basic premise, I think.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

i.e. Let a numbnutz behind the tiller and all hell can break loose.
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This weekend another captain said that the rock they hit has been on the charts since the Iron Age...
 
Just Me

Just Me

I read they drive close to the island so tourists can have a good look at the scenery and do a trip later onto bring money to the inhabitants. Mr ubercaptain just took the ship even closer to impress some friends or such he has on the island. Of course that's just one more rumor, but it really seems that he was the first off board and used his cell phone to call about the calamity; very nice of him to pin himself down so neatly.

This guy seems to be quite the opposite of captain Chesley 'Hudson' Sullenberger.
 
North_Ranger

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I guess sex and bargains are enough to distract most people from endless fathoms of unlit, salty, monster-infested, smothering doom.
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It's not so bad here in the Baltic Sea, really... The average depth is about 180 ft, it's more brackish than salty... and the only time there's monsters in it is when the Sauna Society go skinny-dipping.

Unless, of course, you're scared shitless by this sea monster:



In the Mediterranean... well, what with all the sirens and harpies and six-headed sea monsters and onion-fearing witches living on islands and turning men into pigs, there you are indeed pretty much fucked.
 
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