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Posted on 04/22/2010 10:16:23 AM PDT by JoeProBono
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- A cruise ship operator says dozens of people were hurt when one of its vessels listed during a maneuver to avoid a partially submerged buoy that was adrift near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
Carnival Cruise Lines says the ship, Carnival Ecstasy, had to make a sharp turn to avoid the buoy Wednesday afternoon.
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Ah...must be one of the “Fun Ships.”
But the buffet was fantastic....
"Buoy! Right ahead!"
I know what went wrong — they were too close to Mexico.
Oh buoy . . . cut it out.
submerged buoy
No doubt it was one of the “lost buoys”.
“Captain? Due to that maneuver, tonight’s pineapple upside down cake . . . is right side up!”
Just how big was this buoy?
That small, huh?
I had to do something like that as a junior mate on a passenger liner.
We had just left Keelung, Taiwan when a fishing fleet crossed our bow and dropped off hundreds of rafts with a fisherman on each one. We couldn’t see the rafts till we got close.
We sent the “secret” signal throughout the ship to get the captain on the bridge but he didn’t show. The senior third mate froze:) I got the helmsman to put it in hand steering and told the sr. third he better go hard left. I was always thinking about having to explain my actions in an admiralty court so I made sure the sr 3/M know he was still in charge. Anyhow it was hard left hard right at 22 knots for a number of cycles. I understand we cleared the dining tables of silverware.
Captain showed up after it was all over.
"WHERE?!! WHERE!! < /drool >"
LOL!!!!
Lord Mountbatten supposedly turned his WWII destroyer so tightly that it did indeed keel over and sink...
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