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Re: Rolling Cruise Ship
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jul 26, 20:47 -0500
pfay wrote:
"Thought you mike list to see a photo taken during the list...
http://mysite.verizon.net/don2738/cpreview.html "
Thanks. That's an excellent first-hand account. It seems to confirm that the
tilt was about 15 degrees. Plenty scary and capable of causing serious
injuries for the unfortunate few who happened to be in the wrong place at the
wrong time, but nowhere near catastrophic. Additionally, this confirms that the
turn was to port while the list was to starboard. These big cruise ships have
stabilizing gear that can easily keep the ship level in a sharp turn. But if
that stabilizing power is used against the turn...
Meanwhile, it appears that a junior officer from the Crown Princess has been
relieved of duty. Here's an account from a cruising web site:
"The statement appeared to at least in part confirm an Orlando television
station's report that when the ship's automatic pilot started making a left
turn, an officer on the bridge thought the ship was turning too sharply and
"panicked," taking the ship out of automatic pilot.
The junior officer then accidentally kept the ship in an even sharper turn,
according to television station WESH, causing an estimated 15 to 18 degree
list that emptied swimming pools, overturned large slot machines and exercise
machines in the spa, and sent passengers tumbling."
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jul 26, 20:47 -0500
pfay wrote:
"Thought you mike list to see a photo taken during the list...
http://mysite.verizon.net/don2738/cpreview.html "
Thanks. That's an excellent first-hand account. It seems to confirm that the
tilt was about 15 degrees. Plenty scary and capable of causing serious
injuries for the unfortunate few who happened to be in the wrong place at the
wrong time, but nowhere near catastrophic. Additionally, this confirms that the
turn was to port while the list was to starboard. These big cruise ships have
stabilizing gear that can easily keep the ship level in a sharp turn. But if
that stabilizing power is used against the turn...
Meanwhile, it appears that a junior officer from the Crown Princess has been
relieved of duty. Here's an account from a cruising web site:
"The statement appeared to at least in part confirm an Orlando television
station's report that when the ship's automatic pilot started making a left
turn, an officer on the bridge thought the ship was turning too sharply and
"panicked," taking the ship out of automatic pilot.
The junior officer then accidentally kept the ship in an even sharper turn,
according to television station WESH, causing an estimated 15 to 18 degree
list that emptied swimming pools, overturned large slot machines and exercise
machines in the spa, and sent passengers tumbling."
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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