Norwegian Cruise Ship Hits Iceberg in Antarctic

The Associated Press ^ | December 29, 2007

[george76]

A Norwegian cruise ship carrying some 300 people lost engine power during an electrical outage and struck an Antarctic glacier, smashing a lifeboat but causing no injuries...

The MS Fram hit the ice late Friday near Browns Bluff in the Antarctic... The engine started again and the liner continued to King George Island for an inspection.

"We hit a glacier. We have damage to a starboard lifeboat and a little bit forward," ... the ship apparently suffered no serious damage.

Hansen said the power outage lasted 40 to 50 minutes and sent the vessel adrift against the glacier, where it spent "a few minutes" bumping up against the wall of ice before power was restored.

The Fram anchored before midday near Chile's Eduardo Frei base in an ice-free area west of King George Island.

On Nov. 24 another cruise vessel, the MS Explorer hit an iceberg and sank hours later.

[Paleo Conservative]

I saw this news on Fox and they had a map of Norway in the background ... which is rather misleading to people watching them who might wonder which end of the globe the Antartic is.

[EGPWS]

Blame Global Warming ?

Nah, blame it on ship's for breaking up icebergs and speeding up global warming. ; )

[logic]

That’s one of my favorite film endings.

They don't have those pole things like the gondola's in Venice? Just push the iceberg out of the way... :)

[AnAmericanMother]

You beat me to it. I was going to say that with a name like THAT, what did they expect to happen?

[chuckles]

I’m with you on this. These eco vacations are ridiculous. They spend thousands to freeze their butts off because they’ve been told it won’t be here much longer. The shipping company should be treated like the Exxon Valdez case. They will try to convince people they are doing the eco system a favor by making artificial reefs. Sue the bastids out of business, make them clean up the mess, and stop fouling the “pristine” icy regions. You have to be sick to spend your vacations looking at penguins. $5 at the zoo would get you the same thing.

[dforest]

I thought they all melted and the polar bears were all dying.

[EGPWS]

I saw this news on Fox and they had a map of Norway in the background ... which is rather misleading to people watching them who might wonder which end of the globe the Antartic is.

Heh!

Sounds like a usable liberal scare tactic to convey a spherical object with ends.

[null and void]

I wonder where Antarctica is on that map...

[Paleo Conservative]

Here's some more information about the map I posted on Post #21

McArthur's Universal Corrective Map

Unique downunder viewpoint with cheeky Aussie humor. This map was created by Stuart McArthur of Melbourne, Australia. He drew his first South-Up map when he was 12 years old (1970). His geography teacher told him to re-do his assignment with the "correct" way up if he wanted to pass. Three years later he was an exchange student in Japan. He was taunted by his exchange student-friends from the USA for coming from "the bottom of the world." It was then, at age 15, he resolved to one day publish a map with Australia at the top. Six years later, while at Melbourne University, he produced the world's first "modern" south up map and launched it on Australia day in 1979. It has sold over 350,000 copies to date.

[rmlew]

My bad. I though they lost engine power because of the collision.

[Paleo Conservative]

At the top?

[rod1]

Notice it is the mom and pop-type cruise ships hitting the icebergs. The big guys (Princess, RCI, Holland America, etc.) seem to have a better track record.

[EGPWS]

The lettering on your posted map is upside down. LOL!

[george76]

Yikes :

Happened to me once when I was taking my tanker up a very narrow Swedish fijord.

It could have ruined my day.

[Bon mots]

Does anybody at the Associated Press understand the difference between an Iceberg and a Glacier?

The headline screams that a vessel hit an Iceberg, yet the article clearly states that it hit a glacier. These are two very different things.

I wish the MSM would hurry up and die.

[george76]

The media can not even find Norway on a map.

[TaMoDee]

Sir, Not your ship I intended the iceberg ship ie: MS FRAM.
See Post #14.
I use LuberFiner beats Pure and Fram.

[Wil H]

Was the ship using genuine Fram filters on their engines? Could be the problem if they weren’t. IMO.

Au contraire!

Fram (Allied Signal) ended up buying me a new engine for my Porsche because of their crappy filters....

[packrat35]

Australia’s view of the world. I have that map hanging up in my den.

[potlatch]

Was that ship bearing an Albatross Figurehead?? I suspect Hillary's-Hsusssss......!