Major Incident with Canaveral Cruise Ship

[blindref757]

I'm surprised that they refurbished the ship so quickly.

 

[HNITSUJ]

well, nothing was refurbished, just inspected and tested. If what was written in that report is true, then she is safe to sail and the crew needs a beating. The coast guard is pretty thorough. We had a dive boat delayed this season by the CG because th bilge was dirty.

 

[Diver Dennis]

First of all, they don't really use "rudders" anymore. Do you know what an azipod is??
A good friend works for ABB, the makers of the azipod systems used in nearly all new cruise ships and has described the "rudder tests" they perform during seatrials before the ships ever see their first passenger. In addition to that, my wife is a former employee of RCCL as an IT person that ran the inventory control system and was on one of the ships after a defective azipod was replaced in drydock in Curacao. After that level of work is performed, the USCG comes and recertifies the ship. IIRC, she said the limit of heeling was 42 degrees to pass the test and that ship "came close". She also described it as pretty unbelievable where the crew spent an entire day securing everything before the test. I am NOT saying it's likely a cruise ship will roll over but simply that their not as stable as you might have thought.

Yes, I've seen Azipods on TV. My point was that they could not cause a ship to list so quickly. How did they get the ship to list to 42 degrees when they tested it? What were the "rudder tests"?

 

[Diver Dennis]

Heres the Latest.
http://www.wesh.com/news/9555476/detail.html
basically what it is saying is that there was and is no problem with the ship.It was human interference.

I would be surprised if a new ship with all of it's technological advancements that it would allow you to make such a severe turn. I am probably wrong but you would think it would have some type of system to prevent putting the ship into a turn that could lead to problems like they had or worse.

 

[HNITSUJ]

Had they been avoiding an iceberg, no one would have had a problem with the list

 

[Diver Dennis]

Had they been avoiding an iceberg, no one would have had a problem with the list

They have radar to spot iceburgs and other floating objects.

 

[Misplaced Priority]

Heres the Latest.
http://www.wesh.com/news/9555476/detail.html
basically what it is saying is that there was and is no problem with the ship.It was human interference.

"Hey Captain! What does this button do?"

:lol:

 

[Diver Dennis]

"Hey Captain! What does this button do?"

:lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

That's sounds like what happened...

 

[frankc420]

I bet the pucker factor was high...

 

[Tavi]

It's obviously unsafe for passengers.
It should be cleaned up and sunk somwhere.
It would be much safer as a dive site!!