Posted on 11/27/2022 4:56:44 AM PST by V_TWIN
Imagine a 5’8” giant pink prune.
Alcoholism is caused by globull warming.
Yeah, I’m fairly risk-averse myself. One thing I’ve seen over the years is that stupidity was meant to be painful, and I’ll go out of my way to avoid it if I see it coming.
My dad’s comment about children running out in front of cars: “There’s a trait that likely won’t be passed on to future generations.”
Given the height of those cruise ships it was a miracle that the fall alone didn’t kill him or that he wasn’t made into chum by the propellers. Beyond that keeping afloat in the open sea for some 15 hours and the chance of being found in that vast an area. If he didn’t believe in God given miracles before he should now.
I’m with you guys. I think “improbable” is putting it lightly. 15 hours treading water with no reasonable expectation that your effort will be rewarded with rescue? I just don’t see it
“If he didn’t believe in God given miracles before he should now”
Concur 👍
Isn’t everything? SMH
“It was very obvious the line was trying to protect itself from passenger problems by lying”
Ever noticed NO cruise ships are registered in the U.S.? there’s a reason for that.
There may be 3,000 other people on board but you hardly notice them. Probably because a typical cruise ship will have some 15 decks, each of them massive. You will never actually see the majority of the other passengers (or crew members) you sail with on a given cruise.
As for safety, when was the last time since the Titanic or wartime that a pleasure cruise ship went to the bottom with massive loss of life?
Reminds me of an old Alfred Hitchcock TV show from the 1950s.
Dip in the Pool
Episode aired Jun 1, 1958
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508106/
Titanic is definitely #1 on the list, but the other 9 listed here ain't that encouraging, and again, nothing for which I'll risk my personal participation, particularly after watching their SARS-Cov2 muddled response. Hell, they probably won't even let me aboard, as an unvaxxed citizen. Definitely couldn't go ashore in some of the ports they visit.
The next 8 "disasters" had a cumulative death toll of three. One drunk fell overboard, one perished in an on-board fire and one poor young girl fell overboard when her grandfather perched her on the cabin window ledge, not realizing the window was open.
So out of the three, only one death could be blamed on the cruise ship company itself.
That's a pretty darn good safety record for cruise ships post 1915.
You’re correct in what you’re saying but the bad part is an outdated law. That is because there is a 1830s law on the books that states that foreign-flagged ships are not supposed to transport passengers from one U.S. port to another without stopping in a foreign country. But the law is being looked at different than the basics of it’s writing. They can go from Washington State, Seattle, to the all the Alaskan stops but they stop in Canada, Victoria, BC at their last stop after going straight to Sitka, Alaska, Juneau, Alaska, and Ketchikan (Ward Cove), Alaska on their way back to Seattle. So they didn’t have an excuse for saying port entry problems. They just lied. They do the same thing in Hawaii by going to Ensenada, Mexico on the way back on the open ocean cruises or for the local island cruises they use Fanning Island.
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Actually, we had a lower deck room with a window. I really don’t care about the room much. I’d be content with one over the rudder, so long as it was dark. We only went there to sleep. We took Amtrak from D.C. and the caught a cab from Penn Station in NYC to the terminal on 12th Avenue. After the cruise, we stayed in Manhattan for a week and visited the World Trade Center one night. We stayed on the observation platform on top about two hours, watching the traffic flowing up Broadway and enjoying the smell of salt air off the Atlantic. That was the last week of August, 2001.
Ah, prices have changed a lot since then. Less deals in general in travel period for a lot of reasons
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