Italian Cruise Line disaster

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Good grief what a mess!

Dozens of passengers and crew from a stricken cruise ship are still missing more than 24 hours after the liner capsized off the Italian coast. Rescuers found three survivors, including a honeymoon couple, on board the liner on Sunday morning.

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REUTERS - Italian rescue workers were searching for nearly 40 people still missing early on Sunday, more than a day after a cruise ship with more than 4,000 on board capsized off Italy’s west coast, killing at least three people and injuring 70.

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[WLDB]

As far as sinking ships go, this is nothing. Could have been much worse.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

As far as sinking ships go, this is nothing. Could have been much worse.

Definitely could have, but still what a bloody mess.

 

[captain morgan]

Yet another tragedy in a long line of nautical disasters... This one still haunts me:

7 stranded castaways... Probably the result of a drunk Skipper, not unlike the Exxon Valdez.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

I'm guessing it was likely the stoner first mate and Mary-Ann smoking a Doob on that 3-hour tour.

 

[captain morgan]

Yeah, more than likely.

But all this has got me to thinking... They had a Professor on board and I'm wondering why he never devised a way to get them off the Island... Do you think that it was the absence of graphs that was the culprit here?

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Yeah, more than likely.

But all this has got me to thinking... They had a Professor on board and I'm wondering why he never devised a way to get them off the Island... Do you think that it was the absence of graphs that was the culprit here?

That's a pretty bold accusation.

 

[captain morgan]

As a sage and wise adviser once said:

(former) prime minister jean chretien explains... - YouTube

 

[SLM]

Yeah, more than likely.

But all this has got me to thinking... They had a Professor on board and I'm wondering why he never devised a way to get them off the Island... Do you think that it was the absence of graphs that was the culprit here?

Seriously? The man worked exclusively with coconuts! There was only so much he could do.

I mean, it's not like he was McGyver!

 

[lone wolf]

Sad case really.... If only they had a Canadian toolbox: duct tape and WD40

 

[captain morgan]

Seriously? The man worked exclusively with coconuts! There was only so much he could do.

I mean, it's not like he was McGyver!

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts (Merv Griffin) - YouTube

 

[#juan]

I first read about this cruise ship incident about five oclock this am. It has been reported that there was an explosion
in one of the engine rooms. It has also been reported that the ship hit rocks that the captain says were not supposed
to be there. They are now saying that the ship is on a sand bar which tore a two hundred foot(fifty meter) gash in the
side of the ship. I think the ship will be there for some time before it is floating again

 

[gerryh]

"The captain of the 114,500-tonne ship, Francesco Schettino, was arrested on charges of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, Italian police said. Some 64 people were injured in the accident."

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

"The captain of the 114,500-tonne ship, Francesco Schettino, was arrested on charges of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, Italian police said. Some 64 people were injured in the accident."

Yeah I saw that. Maybe he wanted to conduct the rescue from shore.

 

[Niflmir]

I first read about this cruise ship incident about five oclock this am. It has been reported that there was an explosion
in one of the engine rooms. It has also been reported that the ship hit rocks that the captain says were not supposed
to be there. They are now saying that the ship is on a sand bar which tore a two hundred foot(fifty meter) gash in the
side of the ship. I think the ship will be there for some time before it is floating again

Yeah, the crew is going to jail. Turns out they wanted to get close to Isola del Giglio to show it off to the passengers, so they left the plotted course... and ran aground. Of course there are no convictions yet, but that is what I heard.

 

[taxslave]

Yeah, the crew is going to jail. Turns out they wanted to get close to Isola del Giglio to show it off to the passengers, so they left the plotted course... and ran aground. Of course there are no convictions yet, but that is what I heard.

Well I can guarantee that the rock didn't move. Despite what the lack of crew on the Queen of the North might have claimed.

 

[JLM]

I first read about this cruise ship incident about five oclock this am. It has been reported that there was an explosion
in one of the engine rooms. It has also been reported that the ship hit rocks that the captain says were not supposed
to be there. They are now saying that the ship is on a sand bar which tore a two hundred foot(fifty meter) gash in the
side of the ship. I think the ship will be there for some time before it is floating again

But I guess someone forgot to tell the rocks! Now I'm wondering which of two scenarios it's going to be found to have caused it, booze or like the Queen of the North a little whoop de doo going on! :lol:

Well I can guarantee that the rock didn't move. Despite what the lack of crew on the Queen of the North might have claimed.

Well maybe just a little...............................after the fact! :lol:

 

[Highball]

It wasn't hard to track the escaping Captain. The browm trail he left in the water was visible from a Helicopter.

 

[Kreskin]

What was a he arrested for? Haven't said any reports that connects anything he did to a crime.

 

[gopher]

If not for the courage of that fearless Captain, the minnow would have been lost.

What was a he arrested for? Haven't said any reports that connects anything he did to a crime.

He was arrested and charged with manslaughter. Also leaving a ship without fully accounting for all passengers. While maritime law does not require that he go down with the vessel, he is required to account for passengers before leaving it. He did not do so as he fled well before most of the people had been rescued by other civilians.