There's got to be a morning after.

I wonder if there is some way that they can fill it with pingpong balls or something to keep it afloat and maybe drydock it.

Just don't make them like they used too.

titanic

WTF exactly is nougat?

If it does break in two, who gets to claim all the candy that falls out?

What a wrecked cruise ship might look like:



/If not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Costa Concordia would be lost!
//A three hour cruise, a three hour cruise...

... are there really people still on there?

I hope there's no raisins. I hate raisins.

Marine1: ... are there really people still on there?

Just the dead one.

Gilligan was always ruining the professor's projects. Why didn't they just kill him?

cgraves67: I wonder if there is some way that they can fill it with pingpong balls or something to keep it afloat and maybe drydock it.

That's a lot of ping pong balls.

shokokuphoenix: WTF exactly is nougat?

If wiki will work for ya. If not, google it...

Nougat (new window)

that's a big ship.

FTFA: The Costa Concordia took a nearly identical route past Giglio Island in August to the one Friday that led to the sinking of the ship, NBC News has learned.
Adam Smallman, editor of shipping magazine Lloyd's List, said the route taken in August, based on satellite tracking, was "authorized by the company and the coast guard."

Well, there was at least one difference with this route compared to the one they took in August...

The one they took in August didn't result in sinking the damned boat.

I hate the "disingenuous quote" bit.

Marine1: ... are there really people still on there?

They're still pulling bodies out, yes.

Anybody under the waterline...well, any pockets of air have surely run out by now, so...

NBC News brings us the Real-Life Titanic. This is not to be confused with the real life Titanic.

Humorous-Name: Marine1: ... are there really people still on there?

They're still pulling bodies out, yes.

Anybody under the waterline...well, any pockets of air have surely run out by now, so...

Well... the bodies I knew about...

That's what you get for taking the SS 3 Musketeers.

/has anyone made a "failboat" joke yet?
//doing it anyway

At least the Captain will never work again.

ihatedumbpeople: that's a big ship artificial reef.



Fixed.

From what I've read, they are going to destroy the ship. First, there going to load a Martin Mars bomber's water tanks full of diesel fuel, and then fly it over the length of the boat, coating it in fuel. Then there going to hit it hard with the full AIM-120 AMRAAM payloads of five F-18s. Whatever isn't instantly incinerated will burn and then sink to the bottom of the ocean. They need to move quickly, though, because the strike window is closing as the weather worsens and the ship continues to slip off of the reef.

Italian courts will convict him in 6 days or less..

The Loch Ness Monster will help lift the boat while the Yeti and the Sasquatch monitor the situation on the shore.

ihatedumbpeople: that's a big ship.

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Having just read the Lana Del Rey slam thread from earlier this week, that B&W photo combined with "Video Games" running through my head is a truly eerie combination.

/Navy vet
//Naturally spooked by shipwrecks

spentmiles: From what I've read, they are going to destroy the ship. First, there going to load a Martin Mars bomber's water tanks full of diesel fuel, and then fly it over the length of the boat, coating it in fuel. Then there going to hit it hard with the full AIM-120 AMRAAM payloads of five F-18s. Whatever isn't instantly incinerated will burn and then sink to the bottom of the ocean. They need to move quickly, though, because the strike window is closing as the weather worsens and the ship continues to slip off of the reef.

Michael Bay? Is that you?

Show boating Italian driver wrecks vehicle.

// The only thing missing from this cruise ship story is the cast of Jersey Shore.

spentmiles: From what I've read, they are going to destroy the ship. First, there going to load a Martin Mars bomber's water tanks full of diesel fuel, and then fly it over the length of the boat, coating it in fuel. Then there going to hit it hard with the full AIM-120 AMRAAM payloads of five F-18s. Whatever isn't instantly incinerated will burn and then sink to the bottom of the ocean. They need to move quickly, though, because the strike window is closing as the weather worsens and the ship continues to slip off of the reef.

That, would be awesome

spentmiles: From what I've read, they are going to destroy the ship. First, there going to load a Martin Mars bomber's water tanks full of diesel fuel, and then fly it over the length of the boat, coating it in fuel. Then there going to hit it hard with the full AIM-120 AMRAAM payloads of five F-18s. Whatever isn't instantly incinerated will burn and then sink to the bottom of the ocean. They need to move quickly, though, because the strike window is closing as the weather worsens and the ship continues to slip off of the reef.

They could get al qaeda to fly into the side of it.

Snooki and Deena are going to spread their legs onshore, and the suction will pull the ship out of the water.

I suppose blowing huge holes in the thing had nothing to do with that.

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NBC News brings us the Real-Life Titanic. This is not to be confused with the real life Titanic.

I would pay good money if they would actually airlift every past and present Real Life cast member on to the ship and broadcast them going down with it. And maybe each other.
Make it So...

spentmiles: From what I've read, they are going to destroy the ship. First, there going to load a Martin Mars bomber's water tanks full of diesel fuel, and then fly it over the length of the boat, coating it in fuel. Then there going to hit it hard with the full AIM-120 AMRAAM payloads of five F-18s. Whatever isn't instantly incinerated will burn and then sink to the bottom of the ocean. They need to move quickly, though, because the strike window is closing as the weather worsens and the ship continues to slip off of the reef.

I heard they were going to detonate a thermonuclear device inside the ships hull, because they wanted to recover all the refrigerators.

cgraves67: I wonder if there is some way that they can fill it with pingpong balls or something to keep it afloat and maybe drydock it.

They're thinking about that.

Raising it would be difficult, there was a French liner called the Normandie that caught fire and capsized during WW2. It seems someone lit a cutting torch next to a pile of flammable life vests. The ship was righted but it took months and the entire superstructure had to be removed. The plus side was that the navy gained a great deal of salvage diver training from the mess. The hulk was eventually cut up for scrap.

Can you say Whoops?

Flab: acronym: I suppose blowing huge holes in the thing had nothing to do with that.

I think wind and waves played a bigger part.

It was the waves to relatives on shore that started this whole mess.

FTA: Luxury Cruise Ship

Call me elitist if you will, but this isn't what I'd consider "luxurious"



/List

Dayglo Brown: FTA: Luxury Cruise Ship

Call me elitist if you will, but this isn't what I'd consider "luxurious"

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/List

it'll be the most superfluous drowning you'll ever have.

Has a plan to raise the ship:



/needs a big balloon and an air pump

RIP, TCS Concordia:

Wow, scrapping a 580 million cruise ship because of a little water damage? That's harsh.

Flick the rock out, pull out the dent, put a little bondo on it, geez, it's just a flesh wound!

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This guy sneaks aboard the cruise liner and jumps into one of the lifeboats to hide. Damn there was already someone else there. Not so bad tho to have a bit of company until he noticed it was the Italian captain.

Jake Havechek: Gilligan was always ruining the professor's projects. Why didn't they just kill him?

Since none of the girls came up pregnant, Gilligan must have been used as a concubine.