Were these people sighted on the deck?
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Oops!
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.
What the heck is the importance of showing the country of registry (which crosses the Artic circle) versus where the event occured (southern hemisphere)?
“lost engine power”
Happened to me once when I was taking my tanker up a very narrow Swedish fijord. It could have ruined my day.
The first one, btw, which was filled with eco nutballs eagerly showing their sensitivity to our fragile environment by driving a cruise ship through it, is now leaking fuel oil and endangering the health of the fragile antarctic ecosystem. Nice work ecofreaks. Please FOAD now. It's for the penguins y'know.
Just part of the cruise adventure. Gives the folks something to write home about!
framistan on the fritz?
Fram ("Forward") is a ship that was used in expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912. Fram was probably the strongest wooden ship ever built. It was designed by the Norwegian shipwright Colin Archer for Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 Arctic expedition in which Fram was supposed to freeze into the Arctic ice sheet and float with it over the North Pole. Fram is said to be the wooden ship to have sailed farthest north and farthest south. Fram is currently preserved in whole at the Fram Museum in Oslo, Norway.
Bush’s fault.
Nah, blame it on ship's for breaking up icebergs and speeding up global warming. ; )
I thought they all melted and the polar bears were all dying.
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.
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.
Bush’s fault.
I took this photo this year of another cruise ship approaching the Hubbard Glacier after we moved away to give people some idea of the scale. The top of the ship is at least a 110 feet above the water line.
The year before we were bumped pretty good by a berg.
The captain used to skipper the Exxon Valdez.
Drinks are on the house! The Captain didn’t even have to send out for ice!