Viking Orion: Cruise passengers stranded after fungus halts ship

bbc ^

[lefty-lie-spy]

Blob, blob, blob, blob…

[Fungi]

I’ve read everything I can find on this. The fungus is never named in any article. Very fishy.

[BobL]

Too funny!

[alexander_busek]

Biofoul is an accumulation of microorganisms, plants, algae, or small animal and can allow the importation of invasive species into non-native habitats.

Is this really a "thing?" Could I use this as an excuse to deny my mother-in-law entry to our home?

Regards,

[dforest]

Probably the same crap stuck all over sea turtles.

[V_TWIN]

“The fisheries department said the management of fungus was a “common practice for all arriving international vessels” and said that the ship had to be cleaned to avoid “harmful marine organisms being transported” into Australian waters.”

And I’m sure the head of The fisheries department just happens to have a brother-in-law that has the only company within 200 miles that can clean the ship.......for a nominal fee of course. 👍 😉

[dforest]

Just tell her biofoul is stuck on her hull and then duck.

[bunkerhill7]

Hundreds of passengers have been stranded on a cruise ship floating off Australian coast after a fungus was found growing in Whoopi Goldberg`s brain.

[MikeSteelBe]

A fungus among us?

[alexander_busek]

Just tell her biofoul is stuck on her hull and then duck.

Maybe just suggest that she get her keel hauled before coming to visit?

Regards,

[Paladin2]

Ping.....

[xp38]

The fungus with no name

[HartleyMBaldwin]

No problem, just careen the ship on a handy beach and scrape the hull clean. Plenty of passengers to help.

[entropy12]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEctnRPGC7Y

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqWjkHXq5vY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fi6X6fhpkg

You will notice how clean this ship is. I am sailing on in 2 weeks.

[PLMerite]

"Cruise passengers stranded after fungus halts ship"

That must've been some fungus...

[Ann Archy]

Viking Ocean cruises have had a hard time.

[ro_dreaming]

Is this really a “thing?” Could I use this as an excuse to deny my mother-in-law entry to our home?

If she’s a boat and the only way to your home is via waterway, I suppose, yeah.

[virgil]

Like barnacles? The kind you find in government bureaucracies?

[Qwapisking]

Biofoul struck San franShitco long ago and the results speak for themselves. No wonder the ship was refused! As an infamous accidental pundit once exclaimed, “Ain’t NOBODY got Time for that”.