IT'S JUST LIKE TITANIC!

Man they really need to make a movie about something like this. Some kind of star-studded special effects extravaganza.

Molavian: IT'S JUST LIKE TITANIC!

You fn bastard. 20 seconds.

If they could see you now, dead on a funship cruise!

the "grounded" pic is a nice pic. sad but nice

Great, now I've got "There's got to be a morning after" running through my head.

/If we can make it through the night...

SlothB77: Hey guys, i don't want to threadjack or anything, but does anybody know the conditions that warrant a mutiny legal on a disabled ship?

Shut it!

Let's argue for 500 posts about what "capsized" means!

Threadjack:

Coastguard to captain (who has already left the ship):

"There are people who are coming down the ladder on the bow. Go back in the opposite direction, get back on the ship, and tell me how many people there are and what they have on board.

"Tell me if there are children, women and what type of help they need. And you tell me the number of each of these categories. Is that clear?!

"Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!"

Captain to Coastguard: "Please ...."

Coastguard to captain: "There is no please about it. Go back on board. Assure me you are going back on board!"

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Jake Havechek: SlothB77: Hey guys, i don't want to threadjack or anything, but does anybody know the conditions that warrant a mutiny legal on a disabled ship?

Shut it!

Let's argue for 500 posts about what "capsized" means!

You want to know everything you need to know about capsizing? Wrap a measuring tape around your head.

GaidinCanuck: Threadjack:

Coastguard to captain (who has already left the ship):

"There are people who are coming down the ladder on the bow. Go back in the opposite direction, get back on the ship, and tell me how many people there are and what they have on board.

"Tell me if there are children, women and what type of help they need. And you tell me the number of each of these categories. Is that clear?!

"Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!"

Captain to Coastguard: "Please ...."

Coastguard to captain: "There is no please about it. Go back on board. Assure me you are going back on board!"

Link (new window)

Wiskey.Tango.Foxtrot.

SlothB77: what temperature is that mediterrean water in January? are we talking hypothermia after a few minutes or just uncomfortable?

I remember earlier reports said the water was around 50 degrees. Cold enough to cause hypothermia if exposed long enough, but not North Atlantic water cold.

If you look at the course the ship was supposed to follow and the detour the asshole captain took, it's believable he wanted to get in close so one of the idiot waiters on that tub could wave to his farking family.

Then captain Spaghetti Boy, probably the first ashore, calls his mama before he does anything else.

I'm surprised Italy gets any tourism dollars at all, the place is disorganization personified. Every band I've talked to or read interviews from touring in Italy says it's a logistical nightmare because the local crews are either stupid, lazy, or both.

dittybopper: Jake Havechek: SlothB77: Hey guys, i don't want to threadjack or anything, but does anybody know the conditions that warrant a mutiny legal on a disabled ship?

Shut it!

Let's argue for 500 posts about what "capsized" means!

You want to know everything you need to know about capsizing? Wrap a measuring tape around your head.

You ball sucker.

Missing this:

As long as it doesn't turn into this

Man, that's just a crappy situation...you go on vacation and some wacko caption flips your ship over. THIS sort of stuff is why lawsuits were created.

GaidinCanuck: Coastguard to captain: "There is no please about it. Go back on board. Assure me you are going back on board!"

The hell? Did he get his captaining degree from DeVry?

Also, you get a real Poseidon Adventure vibe from some of those photos.

yoursafewordisharder: Missing this:

[static.guim.co.uk image 460x276]

Wow, just wow. PA is ending on Cinemax as I write this and that very scene appeared as I scrolled down the page. Coincidence Cinemax aired this movie today?

My day is done. I'm gonna go take a nap.

Molavian: IT'S JUST LIKE TITANIC!

YOU BASTARD I WAS GOING TO WATCH THAT TOMORROW!


Could they really have gotten more a shiatty camera for almost all of those pics?
Hell the low end 1.3 MP camera I used to take twat pics of my ex wife in 2001 look better than these pictures.

/I'll go back and compare just to make sure
//see you in about 2-3 minutes

SlothB77: what temperature is that mediterrean water in January? are we talking hypothermia after a few minutes or just uncomfortable?

Looks like the sea surface temp around that area is roughly 23 degrees Centigrade, or about 73 degrees Fahrenheit. Uncomfortable, but tolerable for a few hours. Certainly long enough for even the most inept swimmer to make the few hundred yards to shore.

As much of a royal asshat as the skipper was, it kind of begs the question of what kind of company or industry would have promoted him.

You know, I'd feel bad enough if I were to do something stupid like crash my car into a tree. Wonder what it's like to crash a 115,000-tonne, $330M boat with thousands of people on board.

OldManDownDRoad: "And here's your citation:"

+1 internet.

Wow, less than an hour from impact to rolling over. Is it just me, or did anyone else think a ship built in 2005 would last longer than the titanic after suffering similar damage?

T-Servo: As much of a royal asshat as the skipper was, it kind of begs the question of what kind of company or industry would have promoted him.

It's tough to figure out who is going to be cool and collected under that kind of pressure beforehand. Even naval forces have a hard time training for that, and their mission is to go into harm's way. It's probably much harder for the cruise ship industry, as they've invested so much money into making the ships as safe as possible that most ship's officers will never have a major incident in their careers, and the only time they'll get into trouble is on-shore in a simulator, which isn't really the same: As good as they can be for helping you do train for things, you ass isn't in actual danger in them.

Too soon?

jtfx: Wow, less than an hour from impact to rolling over. Is it just me, or did anyone else think a ship built in 2005 would last longer than the titanic after suffering similar damage?

Yeah, but at least it didn't sink completely.

jtfx: Wow, less than an hour from impact to rolling over. Is it just me, or did anyone else think a ship built in 2005 would last longer than the titanic after suffering similar damage?

It's just you. Ships is ships. This one got holed in the engine room, apparently, and the nature of that area is that it includes rather large open spaces for the, you know, huge engines. That lets in a lot of water even if you close all the watertight doors in time.

myinternetname: Could they really have gotten more a shiatty camera for almost all of those pics?

Would you take your "good" camera on/in to a half sunk ship? They were navy divers, not photographers.

I wonder if the fun slide still works.

Does anyone know what the owner of the ship does when they're done searching it?

Break it apart and let it sink to the bottom? (and face the hellstorm from Greenpeace etc - although I've heard that as long as the toxic crap is removed they make for good a manmade reef or something like that)

Try to repair it and put it back in service?

Gut it out and take all the piping etc....like the thieves do to forecosed homes?

And I'm not a structural engineer but can't they make the hulls out of something sturdy enough to withstand a low speed impact. Maybe like the 5mph bumpers we have on cars (but to a much more compicated degree obviously). Or an outer hull and if it were to be pierced then fill it the outer and inner shell full of "Fix-A-Flat"? :)

Phyllis: Michael, everyone in the engine room drowned.

Michael: No! Thank you, spoiler alert. You saw the movie, those of you who did. They're happy down there in the furnace room. And they're dirty and grimy and sweaty, and they're singing their ethnic songs, and... actually, that might be warehouse.

Darryl: What?

Anyone have any idea of what they are going to do with this boat once the rescue/recovery phases are complete? It's not like they can just call a tug...