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A Cold, Abrupt End To A Honeymoon ('Eco-Friendly' Cruise Ship Hits Iceberg, Pollutes Antarctica)
North County Times/The Californian ^
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007
| DAVE DOWNEY
Posted on 11/29/2007 7:02:00 PM PST by DogByte6RER
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Great job eco-freaks! I suppose the oil covered penguins can take some solace if some of the Al Gore DVDs was ashore.
As usual with all liberals, all that matters is that they have "good intentions."
"I really like penguins," Trust said. And, she said, "I wanted to see the ice before it melts because of global warming." Penguins to eco-tourists...BUG OFF!
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:03:15 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
The MS Explorer sinks slowly into the frigid sea after ramming into an iceberg in the early morning hours of Nov. 23 off Antarctica. Encinitas resident Torrey Trust, who was honeymooning on the ecotourist cruise with husband Trevor Takayama, observed that unlike in the movie 'Titanic,' her ship took a long time to sink. Photo courtesy of Torrey Trust
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:04:13 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
If Global warming does not break up all the ice bergs, liberals cruising around them will.
(This Photo) In 2000, several thousand penguins were affected by a fuel oil spill after the iron-ore carrier Treasure sank off South Africa. Many oil-soaked birds were cleaned and released.
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:06:43 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: bstein80
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:08:03 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
One night, Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" filled the screen. Well, one less copy of Gore's movie to pollute minds.
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:08:49 PM PST
by
NewHampshireDuo
(Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
To: DogByte6RER
"Everything was environmentally oriented. The ship avoided dumping human waste,..."Well, at least until it stank...er...sank.
To: Always Right
They should drug test the skipper and the crew. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were smoking the herb or dropping acid during this hippie cruise...
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:11:48 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
Can you imagine all those poor penguins smelling of patrulli oil and tripping on blotter acid.
Grateful Dead and Phish CDs litering the beaches...
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:15:45 PM PST
by
Holicheese
(1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
From Penguins With Problems - These Humboldt penguins are covered in oil from a recent oil spill. International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW -- www.ifaw.org) /J. Hrusa
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:16:42 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: Always Right
“when, at about midnight on Thanksgiving night” with their hippie bellies stuffed with Tofurkey and organic, free ranch cranberry sauce...
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:17:57 PM PST
by
Holicheese
(1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
To: DogByte6RER
This story reminded me of my favorite Wilbur Smith novel, “Hungry as the Sea”. The first part dealt with a cruise ship in trouble in the Southern Ocean and the efforts of a tugboat captain to save them.
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:19:18 PM PST
by
GAB-1955
(Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven.)
To: Holicheese
That would be an environmental disaster of epic proportions!
The guys on the Exxon Valdez were mere pikers compared to these dirty eco-hippies and their washed ashore paraphernalia.
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:19:23 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
I wish they had been environmentally consistent and insisted on rowing back to Argentina. Think of all the carbon wasted rescuing these morons and bringing them back to civilization.
By the way, notice the eco-tourists’ ship has a big red star on top. Coincidence? I doubt it.
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:27:23 PM PST
by
Tall_Texan
(No Third Term For Bill Clinton!)
To: DogByte6RER
Did I miss the part when they talk about how much oil and pollution this eco-friendly boat created from sinking? I only see the captain complaining about global warming caused the iceberg.
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:29:35 PM PST
by
paudio
To: Tall_Texan
A poster on the newspaper’s blog site wrote this:
Ships Aren’t ‘Eco’
[-] wrote on Nov 29, 2007 4:49 PM:
Remember how some folks were against allowing Mexican trucks cross the border, due to questions on whether those trucks were as well maintained and therefore as safe as US trucks? It’s kind of the same thing with ships. If you have a leaky, aging rustbucket, you just register it in some country with easy regulations (like Liberia)—then you’re free to sail it wherever you want. Such as to Antarctica. The MS Explorer was built almost 20 years ago as a reasearch vessel for the Soviet Union, and has had five changes of ownership since then. The website for the ship’s latest owners describes it as quite a luxurious ship, but doesn’t say where the ship is registered.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/11/30/news/top_stories/1_00_5311_28_07.txt
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:30:27 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
unbelievable.
do these people ever think that IF global warming is caused
by evil human beings driving cars, flying airplanes, cruising
luxury boats
that their expense of these precious resources is contributing to
global warming?
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:32:13 PM PST
by
ken21
( people die + you never hear from them again.)
To: DogByte6RER
" ... a summerlong honeymoon tour of Central and South America."" ... cutting short the cruise on the 12th day of what was to be a 19-day voyage."
Do these people work for a living?
" ... a recent UC San Diego film production graduate ... "
Obviously not.
I guess the biochemist husband is an academic, getting the entire summer off and three weeks in the fall off.
Maybe they are French.
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:36:52 PM PST
by
magellan
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
11/29/2007 7:40:02 PM PST
by
Holicheese
(1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
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