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Norwegian Cruise Ship Hits Iceberg in Antarctic
The Associated Press ^
| December 29, 2007
Posted on 12/31/2007 4:16:35 PM PST by george76
A Norwegian cruise ship carrying some 300 people lost engine power during an electrical outage and struck an Antarctic glacier, smashing a lifeboat but causing no injuries...
The MS Fram hit the ice late Friday near Browns Bluff in the Antarctic... The engine started again and the liner continued to King George Island for an inspection.
"We hit a glacier. We have damage to a starboard lifeboat and a little bit forward," ... the ship apparently suffered no serious damage.
Hansen said the power outage lasted 40 to 50 minutes and sent the vessel adrift against the glacier, where it spent "a few minutes" bumping up against the wall of ice before power was restored.
The Fram anchored before midday near Chile's Eduardo Frei base in an ice-free area west of King George Island.
On Nov. 24 another cruise vessel, the MS Explorer hit an iceberg and sank hours later.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarcticglacier; argentina; buenosaires; cruiseship; fram; glacier; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hansen; iceberg; inconvenienttruth; msfram; norway; norwegian; snow; steinarhansen; tr; weather
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To: AgThorn; george76
I saw this news on Fox and they had a map of Norway in the background ... which is rather misleading to people watching them who might wonder which end of the globe the Antartic is.
To: george76
Blame Global Warming ? Nah, blame it on ship's for breaking up icebergs and speeding up global warming. ; )
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:46:01 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Moose4
Thats one of my favorite film endings.They don't have those pole things like the gondola's in Venice? Just push the iceberg out of the way... :)
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:47:22 PM PST
by
logic
(Support Duncan Hunter for the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. He is THE conservative candidate!!)
To: hellbender
You beat me to it. I was going to say that with a name like THAT, what did they expect to happen?
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:50:17 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: hinckley buzzard
I’m with you on this. These eco vacations are ridiculous. They spend thousands to freeze their butts off because they’ve been told it won’t be here much longer. The shipping company should be treated like the Exxon Valdez case. They will try to convince people they are doing the eco system a favor by making artificial reefs. Sue the bastids out of business, make them clean up the mess, and stop fouling the “pristine” icy regions. You have to be sick to spend your vacations looking at penguins. $5 at the zoo would get you the same thing.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:50:50 PM PST
by
chuckles
To: george76
I thought they all melted and the polar bears were all dying.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:52:10 PM PST
by
dforest
(Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
To: AgThorn
I saw this news on Fox and they had a map of Norway in the background ... which is rather misleading to people watching them who might wonder which end of the globe the Antartic is. Heh!
Sounds like a usable liberal scare tactic to convey a spherical object with ends.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:52:31 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Paleo Conservative
I wonder where Antarctica is on that map...
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:53:02 PM PST
by
null and void
(Don't taunt the tiger...)
To: AgThorn; george76; rmlew
Here's some more information about the map I posted on Post
#21
McArthur's Universal Corrective Map
Unique downunder viewpoint with cheeky Aussie humor. This map was created by Stuart McArthur of Melbourne, Australia. He drew his first South-Up map when he was 12 years old (1970). His geography teacher told him to re-do his assignment with the "correct" way up if he wanted to pass. Three years later he was an exchange student in Japan. He was taunted by his exchange student-friends from the USA for coming from "the bottom of the world." It was then, at age 15, he resolved to one day publish a map with Australia at the top. Six years later, while at Melbourne University, he produced the world's first "modern" south up map and launched it on Australia day in 1979. It has sold over 350,000 copies to date.
To: Moose4
My bad. I though they lost engine power because of the collision.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:53:31 PM PST
by
rmlew
(Felix sit novus annus)
To: null and void
To: george76
Notice it is the mom and pop-type cruise ships hitting the icebergs. The big guys (Princess, RCI, Holland America, etc.) seem to have a better track record.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:56:35 PM PST
by
rod1
To: Paleo Conservative
The lettering on your posted map is upside down. LOL!
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posted on
12/31/2007 5:00:39 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Cold Heart; BIGLOOK
Yikes :
Happened to me once when I was taking my tanker up a very narrow Swedish fijord.
It could have ruined my day.
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posted on
12/31/2007 5:04:24 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Does anybody at the Associated Press understand the difference between an Iceberg and a Glacier?
The headline screams that a vessel hit an Iceberg, yet the article clearly states that it hit a glacier. These are two very different things.
I wish the MSM would hurry up and die.
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posted on
12/31/2007 5:08:39 PM PST
by
Bon mots
To: Bon mots; Grampa Dave; AgThorn; the scotsman; BRITinUSA; G8 Diplomat; WesternCulture; ...
The media can not even find Norway on a map.
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posted on
12/31/2007 5:15:03 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Cold Heart
Sir, Not your ship I intended the iceberg ship ie: MS FRAM.
See Post #14.
I use LuberFiner beats Pure and Fram.
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posted on
12/31/2007 5:17:20 PM PST
by
TaMoDee
To: TaMoDee
Was the ship using genuine Fram filters on their engines? Could be the problem if they werent. IMO. Au contraire!
Fram (Allied Signal) ended up buying me a new engine for my Porsche because of their crappy filters....
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posted on
12/31/2007 5:21:32 PM PST
by
Wil H
To: Paleo Conservative
Australia’s view of the world. I have that map hanging up in my den.
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posted on
12/31/2007 5:35:27 PM PST
by
packrat35
(Politicians would be less worthless if they were edible, or useable for packing wheel bearings.)
To: devolve; george76; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; FARS
Was that ship bearing an Albatross Figurehead?? I suspect Hillary's-Hsusssss......!
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posted on
12/31/2007 5:40:13 PM PST
by
potlatch
("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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