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"A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship"
In 1997 we sailed to Hawaii on Statendam out of Long Beach and almost
immediately one of the passengers fell and broke a leg or a hip or something. The Coast Guard in San Diego declined to send a 'copter to evacuate the injured passenger so we had to go back to San Diego in order to allow the passenger to receive appropriate care, arriving at about 2AM. To say that the Captain was displeased would be an understatement. Few Captains "salute" the port on departure at 3AM. What is ironic in light of the recent QM2 rebates is that although we arrived in our first port, Hilo, at around 4PM and departed at 7, no offer of any compensation was made, and we, the pax, never complained. Two years later we made the same cruise, now out of San Diego, and this time a passenger had a heart attack on the first morning out of port. This time the Coast Guard DID send a 'copter, which allowed us to reach our ports on time and got me some great video of them lifting the passenger off of the ship and almost dropping them. -- DG in Cherry Hill, NJ "Dillon Pyron" wrote in message ... Thus spake "Dick G." dickdotgoldhaber@gmaildotcom : They well may be, Charles and Warren. I know that on Statendam there was a radio in the wall between the beds that offered several genres of music, but announcements were only on channel 1 or in the hallway outside of the cabin. On Westerdam there was no radio, but there were two channels on the TV that played music, and where you could hear announcements. MOST of the time the announcements are for Bingo, and the "Report from the bridge", wherein the Captain gives the weather report for the day followed by the announcement for Bingo. :-( On the Elation, announcments such as bingo, the casino is open and dinner time we broadcast in the halls. But when we turned around for a MOB, that was broadcast in the cabins. -- dillon Could have been is in the past Could be is in the future There is only the now |
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"A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship"
"Dick G." dickdotgoldhaber@gmaildotcom wrote in message ... When I saw the subject I thought it was going to be another note from Clint about how he and the "cow" don't understand HAL's tipping policy. -- DG in Cherry Hill, NJ Now I wish that I would had thought of that one. That's a good one... Wonder if that's how he met the cow, by tipping her? |
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"A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship"
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:53:23 GMT, "C. Massey"
wrote: How is the man doing? The heart attack victim, I hope all is well..and he will live to sail again. This may be old news, but it is in today's Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. If this has already been posted, please forgive me. But my question is, why did they turn around? Why not just slow down and have a helicopter meet up with them? Doesn't a cruise ship cruise at about 20-25 knots? If so, they shouldn't be more than 60 miles out... http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/13855203.htm A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship GALVESTON -- As they disembarked from the cruise ship Grand Princess on Saturday following a weeklong trip, passengers described a wild ride when the ship made an emergency turnaround just after the trip began. They said that the ship tipped sharply on its side during an emergency turnaround two hours after the 2,600-passenger Grand Princess left the Port of Galveston on Feb. 4. A passenger who suffered a heart attack had required urgent onshore medical attention. A company spokeswoman said that the passenger was transferred to a waiting Coast Guard cutter. "We just thought we were going overboard," Woney Peters, a resident of Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, told The Galveston County Daily News for today's editions. "The boat just started tipping and tipping and tipping." Peters said that water from the ship's pools spilled into the dinning area as well as some of the staterooms. Earlier in the week, Princess Cruises spokeswoman Karen Tetherow said several passengers and crew members had minor injuries from the turnaround. She also said some items onboard like glassware and china broke. |
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"A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship"
Clint,
When you graduate and join the rest of us grown-ups, being a "senior" will be part of fond high school memories. At that time you'll stop telling everyone you married a cow. You must be from Minnesota farm country. That's the only place I've heard unstleing, the fine art of cow tipping an old Swedish custom. The purpose of unstleing may have had something to do with natural milk shakes but the reason has been lost to antiquity. ;-) -- ________ To email me, Edit "blog" from my email address. Brian M. Kochera "Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once!" View My Web Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~brian1951 On 2/12/06 3:08 PM clint consulted a Magic 8 Ball and declared: I find all this "news" quite unstleing(I am a senior!) "Charles" wrote in message d... In article , Dick G. dickdotgoldhaber@gmaildotcom wrote: Thankfully, Charles, when I got knocked on my butt on Statendam, the only thing that got broke were the dishes that we brought back to the room with desserts which we had placed on the mantle over the refrigerator. Had a similiar situation on Celebrity Century several years ago. Happened in the middle of the night. Nothing broke in the cabin, I almost fell off the bed and all the drawers in the cabin came open. Elsewhere on the ship the Grand Piano tipped over, lots of displays broke including their liquor display and glass broke. They never would say exactly why the ship turned liked that but the rumor was it was to avoid a fishing boat. -- Charles |
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"A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship"
Thus spake Andy Dufresne :
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:53:23 GMT, "C. Massey" wrote: How is the man doing? The heart attack victim, I hope all is well..and he will live to sail again. That's not news. People have heart attacks all the time. Besides, it's now been more than the requisite 24 hours and Cheney screwed up and shot a Republican lawyer instead of Democrat. This may be old news, but it is in today's Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. If this has already been posted, please forgive me. But my question is, why did they turn around? Why not just slow down and have a helicopter meet up with them? Doesn't a cruise ship cruise at about 20-25 knots? If so, they shouldn't be more than 60 miles out... http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/13855203.htm A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship GALVESTON -- As they disembarked from the cruise ship Grand Princess on Saturday following a weeklong trip, passengers described a wild ride when the ship made an emergency turnaround just after the trip began. They said that the ship tipped sharply on its side during an emergency turnaround two hours after the 2,600-passenger Grand Princess left the Port of Galveston on Feb. 4. A passenger who suffered a heart attack had required urgent onshore medical attention. A company spokeswoman said that the passenger was transferred to a waiting Coast Guard cutter. "We just thought we were going overboard," Woney Peters, a resident of Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, told The Galveston County Daily News for today's editions. "The boat just started tipping and tipping and tipping." Peters said that water from the ship's pools spilled into the dinning area as well as some of the staterooms. Earlier in the week, Princess Cruises spokeswoman Karen Tetherow said several passengers and crew members had minor injuries from the turnaround. She also said some items onboard like glassware and china broke. -- dillon Could have been is in the past Could be is in the future There is only the now |
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"A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship"
Charles wrote:
In article , Dick G. dickdotgoldhaber@gmaildotcom wrote: Thankfully, Charles, when I got knocked on my butt on Statendam, the only thing that got broke were the dishes that we brought back to the room with desserts which we had placed on the mantle over the refrigerator. Had a similiar situation on Celebrity Century several years ago. Happened in the middle of the night. Nothing broke in the cabin, I almost fell off the bed and all the drawers in the cabin came open. Elsewhere on the ship the Grand Piano tipped over, lots of displays broke including their liquor display and glass broke. They never would say exactly why the ship turned liked that but the rumor was it was to avoid a fishing boat. I think we were on the same cruise. Was it a 1999 July Baltic trip? |
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"A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship"
In article , CFL
wrote: I think we were on the same cruise. Was it a 1999 July Baltic trip? No, it was a July Caribbean sailing. I don't recall the year right now. -- Charles |
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"A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship"
I finally located a photo of a U.S. Navy carrier doing a power turn... which was probably a simular senario aboard the Grand Princess. It looks like about a 25 degree list... which is kind of awesome. It can be viewed at: http://mysite.verizon.net/res7pent/w...os2/index.html Hopefully the above URL will work. I'm just now trying out my Verizon web site capabilities and am a "newbie" at this sort of thing. Best regards Bill |
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Been on one doing this and it is a TOTALLY Awesome experience.
Thanks for the link - it worked fine. Cheers, John The picture depicts what happens when Clint's cow tips too far to one side. |
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