Cruise ship sails through Nor'easter that just passed up the east coast

[Anti Federalist]

This one will work I guess. (shorter version from Disney itself)

Yup...just another day at the office.

That first vessel is damn near a sister ship.

 

[Danke]

If I took a video out of my pilothouse, I reckon half of the people watching would puke after about ten minutes.

Of course, melodrama is to be expected, but this really is poor voyage planning on the part of the master and NCL. -AF

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

Yup...just another day at the office.

That first vessel is damn near a sister ship.

That is one mighty vessel, in my amateur opinion that is. A beauty as well.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I remember driving the "Lime Island" into waves crossing the St. Mary's.. It was fun, when I was 12.
Looking back,,with some better understanding,, it seems more dangerous than it did at the time.
Good boat though.

and a better one,, seems it was repainted since I remember it.

Nice.

I love that aqua color the lakes are around Erie and lower Huron.

I miss that area, had a good time up there that summer and fall, in spite of all the headaches.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Of course, melodrama is to be expected, but this really is poor voyage planning on the part of the master and NCL. -AF

There's a difference between 16 seasoned mariners on a workboat, and 4000 landsmen on a drinking and pussy cruise.

It's part of our job to get the shit beat out of us.

 

[Danke]

There's a difference between 16 seasoned mariners on a workboat...It's part of our job to get the shit beat out of us.

Ya, we know...

 

[Swordsmyth]

Was the captain trying to show off?

The last thing you want on a cruise ship is a bunch of customers who go away thinking you gave them the worst experience of their lives.

 

[pcosmar]

Was the captain trying to show off?

I doubt it was his decision..

and I suspect it was an insurance gamble..
That is the whole reason for naming otherwise unnamed storms. (declared emergency/named storm=$$$)

 

[acptulsa]

The joys of modern cruise ship architecture.

A tall ship is topheavy and rolls over more easily. Passenger liners used to be restricted in overall height for this reason. Now they're basically oceangoing skyscrapers. Why? Two reasons. More cabins get a window. And a tall ship is like a long pendulum--it swings more slowly back and forth, and this cuts down on seasickness.

More windows and less seasickness is a good thing--until a storm comes up, and where a liner built in the 1930s would safely bob through twenty degrees of pendulum swing, these topheavy-as-a-SUV pigs try to turn turtle.

 

[Anti Federalist]

The joys of modern cruise ship architecture.

A tall ship is topheavy and rolls over more easily. Passenger liners used to be restricted in overall height for this reason. Now they're basically oceangoing skyscrapers. Why? Two reasons. More cabins get a window. And a tall ship is like a long pendulum--it swings more slowly back and forth, and this cuts down on seasickness.

More windows and less seasickness is a good thing--until a storm comes up, and where a liner built in the 1930s would safely bob through twenty degrees of pendulum swing, these topheavy-as-a-SUV pigs try to turn turtle.

The only reason these vessels can be close to seaworthy is because of a complex system of underwater para-vanes, gyro stabilizers and "fast ballast" systems.

All of which are rendered non-functional in the event of a main buss blackout.

Thirty trained, seasoned mariners died on the El Faro while trying to enter lifeboats/liferafts on a disabled ship in a storm.

I would not even want to think about trying to abandon ship in a "dead ship" situation, in sub freezing storm conditions, with thousands of untrained, panicky passengers to try and keep safe.