Click:
Posted on 07/19/2006 7:49:50 PM PDT by MindBender26
Big ships like this one can't make radical abrupt turns. It takes much effort to even begin to turn a ship like this. It's not a formula car for cryin out loud. This explanation is BS.
> I'd be curious what kind of steering system it has.
> Cables? Hydraulics? Electronic controls?
Steering (and listing) is not just a matter of rudder,
or even differential thrust, on modern ships. They also
often have stabilizer vanes (for heavy seas) and/or
bow/stern thrusters (for tug-less docking). In concert,
all of these systems could impart some interesting
dynamics.
Given the number of fires, groundings, illnesses and
other mishaps attributable to incompetence on these
boats, I'm inclined to think malfunction/incompetence
until contrary evidence arises.
What, he gets 4 more virgins if he kills Christians and Jews? ;o)
Where is Michael Rivero anyway?
>Big ships like this one can't make radical abrupt turns.
But this one did, didn't it? (see MSM reports, please)
>Where is Michael Rivero anyway?
He lived on the Big Island, part of the Free Hawaii Movement.
What?
...The 3000 passenger 22-knot floating hotel "Crown Princess" was 11 miles south of Port Canaveral, heading out on a Western Caribbean cruise ...
It had completed the Western Caribbean cruise and was heading to Brooklyn.
...the ship was launched in 2003...
It was launched in 2006.
The steering system is hydraulic electric. Huge hydraulic rams position the rudder. The controls are electric, unless things have changed since I retired as a Coast Guard Marine Inspector, there should be servos controlling the whole system from the bridge to the steering compartment.
These ships have thew equivalent of airplane "black boxes"...every movement, every control input to the engines and systems is recorded, as well as who did what...this will be easy to backtrack and confirm/deny..
Did you short the cruise lines today?
Click:
Agree those ships don't turn quickly, but they can turn on a dime with the thrusters.
>>...the ship was launched in 2003...
>It was launched in 2006.
Actually no. Stories about it being launched in 2006 are wrong. It was launched (made to float) in 2003, fitted out, then christened (by Martha Stewart!) in 2006.
In the cruise business, launching to revenue runs is a few years.
"...a worse drunk." Ok--now you're bragging.
I'm looking into the mysterious deaths in Disney rides, particularly the Rock n Roller Coaster. I can't think of a more nefarious way to rent the very fabric of Amercan society than by fostering doubt about one of our great rock and roll icons. It's horrifying. I'm not sure how these fiendish devils came up with it.
>Did you short the cruise lines today?
No.
I did Google
:~)
Sounds like a situation desperate for investigation done in full broad daylight with complete disclosure.
>"...a worse drunk." Ok--now you're bragging.
Yeah, but they fixed the wall so all is Ok now!
:~)
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