|
|
Oh Lord, Your Sea is So Large...
I'm sure there's a story behind that, not sure what it is. Hopefully it just had the crew on board at that point (she looks like she's under power). I'd be one unhappy customer to have paid a ticket for that ride.
That would suck. It actually looks like a smallish cruise ship. The amazing thing, aside from some psychotic listing, is that it looks like it took a green one over the bow. Very Bad Thing, that.
Posted by: ron on April 9, 2007 08:24 PMAccording to wikinews dot org:
Feb. 14, 2005
A passenger ship, the Voyager enroute between Spain's Balearic Islands to the Italian island of Sardinia, radioed a distress call earlier today after getting into difficulties in heavy seas. A huge wave shattered a bridge window, damaging control systems inside.
The Bahamian-registered ship is carrying 776 passengers and crew, 480 of them Spanish. Some sustained minor injurues when the ship sailed into the storm at 8am UTC today.
French and Spanish tugs have been dispatched to assist the vessel, and the British gas tanker Gimi has diverted to offer help and is relaying radio signals from the stricken ship. Voyager "is in a difficult situation but is not drifting", according to the French coastguard, with only a single propeller still providing force.
The ship was sailing from Tunis to Barcelona when she encountered the storm. The crew have restored power to two of her four engines and she is now diverting to Tunis, and is expected to reach port on Tuesday.
Yikes!!! Ok, that's about as messed up as it can get, without, you know, actually sinking or anything.
Posted by: scott on April 11, 2007 07:51 PMGeez, that must have made it hard to play shuffleboard. ;-)
Posted by: Dale on April 23, 2007 03:40 PM