Two men dead on ‘Love Boat’

TORONTO SUN ^ | AUGUST 13, 2013 | WENN.COM

[rickmichaels]

Two men died and eight others were hospitalized after a toxic gas build-up on board the luxury ship featured in hit TV show The Love Boat.

The decommissioned vessel, named Pacific Princess, was heading in to dock on the coast of Turkey for the last time on Saturday following news it is to be scrapped.

It began taking on water as it neared the shore, and several crew members entered the engine room to pump it out. Reports suggest a deadly build-up of exhaust fumes poisoned ten workers, killing two of them. The other men were treated in hospital for the effects of gas poisoning. Some local reports suggest nine workers were injured.

Authorities in Turkey are investigating the incident.

The Love Boat, a romantic sitcom set on board a cruise ship, ran for ten years in the U.S. until 1986.

[circlecity]

Gopher isn’t going to like this.

[Old Sarge]

:singing: “The Looooove Boooat, will not be making another run...”

[Psalm 73]

Now THAT’S irony for ‘ya

[MeganC]

The old girl’s fighting back and will not gently into that good scrapyard.

[Patriot Babe]

Wow I really do need to have my eyes checked. The first thing I notice was 2 men & the word LOVE BOAT.

Down on Memory Lane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo

[wally_bert]

Doc Bricker to autopsy please.

[GnL]

I remember Julie (?) being kinda hot in her day.

[al baby]

And loved to snort coke

[KarlInOhio]

Why did we let the network talk us into a Love Boat/Murder She Wrote cross-over with Angela Lansbury as a passenger?

[GnL]

I think everyone in Hollywood was on coke back then. She just got caught.

[KarlInOhio]

Doc Bricker to autopsy please.

Well, I guess it's more interesting than his usual job of prescribing crab lice shampoo and getting annoying calls at 4 hours and 1 minute after passengers take viagra.

[MrB]

Viagra wasn’t invented yet.

[Buckeye McFrog]

if The Love Boat were on today, it would probably be sponsored by Viagra.

[Tax-chick]

The only reason this is being reported is that the ship was used in a TV program. I wonder how many workers die each year in the ship-breaking industry? Bet it’s a lot.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I understand the PT-73 threw a rudder on it’s final voyage, and the General Lee blew a rod on it’s way to the junkyard.

[mountn man]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yikes. RIP.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I remember Julie (?) being kinda hot in her day.

Played by Lauren Tewes. A native of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a post-civilization former steel town near Pittsburgh.

[Uncle Miltie]