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Quick rescue operation for ‘Carnival Triumph’ adrift in the Gulf of Mexico
Carnival cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4,200 passengers and crew will be towed to port after a weekend engine fire left it dead in the water, a cruise line official announced. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Vigorous arrived early Monday to aid the stranded ship. The first of two tugboats is expected on the scene by midday, said Greg Magee, commander of the Vigorous. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesit seems one is not safe on any cruse liners nowdays.
Feb 11th, 2013 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently Argentinians are going to send their flagship( libertad ) to help in the rescue mission. Argentine Government statement says “ don't hold your breath it could be a while”
Feb 11th, 2013 - 10:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Feb 12th, 2013 - 03:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Reading about all these cruiseliner horror stories over the years have turned me off of cruises. I'll get on a boat to go from point a to point b but thats about it.
Feb 12th, 2013 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 And how are “your” warships? Anybody told you that they aren't all supposed to go underwater? That “modern” ships have engines, not sails? Does your “navy” have a new naming convention? It used to be ARA (whatever). Have you changed it to AKA General Belgrano? All named the same so that they can dive to the bottom?
Feb 12th, 2013 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The number of 'engine' fires, which are probably electrical by nature as the engines drive alternators which, via the inverters, drive ac motors attached to propellers would seem to point to a mis-match between expected load as designed and actual load experienced.
Feb 12th, 2013 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Put another way a cheap job with no overload factored in. If this is the case it will be very expensive to upgrade all their ships of this type and class.
the triumph is one of the oldest carnival ships.
Feb 12th, 2013 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0when you sit in the main restaurant on the second floor at the rear at the table, the guests shake like puppets due to an unbalance of the drive shaft. maybe it run hot.
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Feb 12th, 2013 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are correct Willi. It certainly ran hot as you described. It went on fire.
Wait a minute. Suppose it was argie “sabotage”? A “covert” argie act of war? Shouldn't we bomb Buenos (fuckit) Aires? Argies, and allies(?), are terrorising South Atlantic and Caribbean. We should take this to the United Nations. Demand that argieland accounts for the location of every one of its “inhabitants” for every day since December 1st 2012. Including “ex-pats” (terrorist infiltrators) like P_H. Perhaps, after they've been rounded up and neutered, we could have them shot?
Feb 12th, 2013 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 03 jonas
Feb 12th, 2013 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another shipwreck veteran lol.
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Feb 13th, 2013 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Can someone explain what Jonas is trying to say?
Ignore Jonas, just another sock puppet by a troll. They will never go away but don't give them oxygen. Just ignore the dozens of them on here otherwise they are getting what they want.
Feb 13th, 2013 - 05:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0agreed
Feb 13th, 2013 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuujajaja
Feb 14th, 2013 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Merco-british crap-Press continues
same than the economist and the commentator
bitch bitch bitch
Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom? YES or NO
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