"A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship"

In 1997 we sailed to Hawaii on Statendam out of Long Beach and almost
immediately one of the passengers fell and broke a leg or a hip or
something.

The Coast Guard in San Diego declined to send a 'copter to evacuate the
injured passenger so we had to go back to San Diego in order to allow the
passenger to receive appropriate care, arriving at about 2AM.

To say that the Captain was displeased would be an understatement. Few
Captains "salute" the port on departure at 3AM.

What is ironic in light of the recent QM2 rebates is that although we
arrived in our first port, Hilo, at around 4PM and departed at 7, no offer
of any compensation was made, and we, the pax, never complained.

Two years later we made the same cruise, now out of San Diego, and this time
a passenger had a heart attack on the first morning out of port. This time
the Coast Guard DID send a 'copter, which allowed us to reach our ports on
time and got me some great video of them lifting the passenger off of the
ship and almost dropping them.
--
DG in Cherry Hill, NJ

"Dillon Pyron" wrote in message
...
Thus spake "Dick G." dickdotgoldhaber@gmaildotcom :

They well may be, Charles and Warren. I know that on Statendam there was
a
radio in the wall between the beds that offered several genres of music,
but
announcements were only on channel 1 or in the hallway outside of the
cabin.
On Westerdam there was no radio, but there were two channels on the TV
that
played music, and where you could hear announcements.

MOST of the time the announcements are for Bingo, and the "Report from the
bridge", wherein the Captain gives the weather report for the day followed
by the announcement for Bingo. :-(

On the Elation, announcments such as bingo, the casino is open and
dinner time we broadcast in the halls. But when we turned around for
a MOB, that was broadcast in the cabins.
--
dillon

Could have been is in the past
Could be is in the future
There is only the now

"Dick G." dickdotgoldhaber@gmaildotcom wrote in message
...
When I saw the subject I thought it was going to be another note from
Clint about how he and the "cow" don't understand HAL's tipping policy.
--
DG in Cherry Hill, NJ



Now I wish that I would had thought of that one. That's a good one...

Wonder if that's how he met the cow, by tipping her?

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:53:23 GMT, "C. Massey"
wrote:

How is the man doing? The heart attack victim, I hope all is well..and
he will live to sail again.





This may be old news, but it is in today's Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. If this
has already been posted, please forgive me.

But my question is, why did they turn around? Why not just slow down and
have a helicopter meet up with them? Doesn't a cruise ship cruise at about
20-25 knots? If so, they shouldn't be more than 60 miles out...

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/13855203.htm

A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship

GALVESTON -- As they disembarked from the cruise ship Grand Princess on
Saturday following a weeklong trip, passengers described a wild ride when
the ship made an emergency turnaround just after the trip began. They said
that the ship tipped sharply on its side during an emergency turnaround two
hours after the 2,600-passenger Grand Princess left the Port of Galveston on
Feb. 4. A passenger who suffered a heart attack had required urgent onshore
medical attention. A company spokeswoman said that the passenger was
transferred to a waiting Coast Guard cutter. "We just thought we were going
overboard," Woney Peters, a resident of Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, told The
Galveston County Daily News for today's editions. "The boat just started
tipping and tipping and tipping." Peters said that water from the ship's
pools spilled into the dinning area as well as some of the staterooms.
Earlier in the week, Princess Cruises spokeswoman Karen Tetherow said
several passengers and crew members had minor injuries from the turnaround.
She also said some items onboard like glassware and china broke.

In article , lid says...


In article , Dick G.
dickdotgoldhaber@gmaildotcom wrote:

Thankfully, Charles, when I got knocked on my butt on Statendam, the only
thing that got broke were the dishes that we brought back to the room with
desserts which we had placed on the mantle over the refrigerator.

Had a similiar situation on Celebrity Century several years ago.
Happened in the middle of the night. Nothing broke in the cabin, I
almost fell off the bed and all the drawers in the cabin came open.
Elsewhere on the ship the Grand Piano tipped over, lots of displays
broke including their liquor display and glass broke. They never would
say exactly why the ship turned liked that but the rumor was it was to
avoid a fishing boat.

--
Charles

Twenty years ago I was on a cruise on the Orinoco River on the Ocean
Cruise Lines' ship Ocean Princess. Several times the ship listed far
enough to one side or the other for things to slide of tables. The
list lasted for several seconds. I guess that they had to make some
sharp turns to navigate the river and had problems with their ballast
tanks.

The Ocean Princess later ran aground doing an Amazon River crusie. I
guess she was not built for rivers.

Clint,

When you graduate and join the rest of us grown-ups, being a "senior"
will be part of fond high school memories. At that time you'll stop
telling everyone you married a cow. You must be from Minnesota farm
country. That's the only place I've heard unstleing, the fine art of
cow tipping an old Swedish custom. The purpose of unstleing may have
had something to do with natural milk shakes but the reason has been
lost to antiquity. ;-)

--
________
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Brian M. Kochera
"Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once!"
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On 2/12/06 3:08 PM clint consulted a Magic 8 Ball and declared:
I find all this "news" quite unstleing(I am a senior!)
"Charles" wrote in message
d...

In article , Dick G.
dickdotgoldhaber@gmaildotcom wrote:


Thankfully, Charles, when I got knocked on my butt on Statendam, the only
thing that got broke were the dishes that we brought back to the room
with
desserts which we had placed on the mantle over the refrigerator.

Had a similiar situation on Celebrity Century several years ago.
Happened in the middle of the night. Nothing broke in the cabin, I
almost fell off the bed and all the drawers in the cabin came open.
Elsewhere on the ship the Grand Piano tipped over, lots of displays
broke including their liquor display and glass broke. They never would
say exactly why the ship turned liked that but the rumor was it was to
avoid a fishing boat.

--
Charles

Thus spake Andy Dufresne :

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:53:23 GMT, "C. Massey"
wrote:

How is the man doing? The heart attack victim, I hope all is well..and
he will live to sail again.

That's not news. People have heart attacks all the time. Besides,
it's now been more than the requisite 24 hours and Cheney screwed up
and shot a Republican lawyer instead of Democrat.






This may be old news, but it is in today's Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. If this
has already been posted, please forgive me.

But my question is, why did they turn around? Why not just slow down and
have a helicopter meet up with them? Doesn't a cruise ship cruise at about
20-25 knots? If so, they shouldn't be more than 60 miles out...

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/13855203.htm

A wild ride aboard tipping cruise ship

GALVESTON -- As they disembarked from the cruise ship Grand Princess on
Saturday following a weeklong trip, passengers described a wild ride when
the ship made an emergency turnaround just after the trip began. They said
that the ship tipped sharply on its side during an emergency turnaround two
hours after the 2,600-passenger Grand Princess left the Port of Galveston on
Feb. 4. A passenger who suffered a heart attack had required urgent onshore
medical attention. A company spokeswoman said that the passenger was
transferred to a waiting Coast Guard cutter. "We just thought we were going
overboard," Woney Peters, a resident of Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, told The
Galveston County Daily News for today's editions. "The boat just started
tipping and tipping and tipping." Peters said that water from the ship's
pools spilled into the dinning area as well as some of the staterooms.
Earlier in the week, Princess Cruises spokeswoman Karen Tetherow said
several passengers and crew members had minor injuries from the turnaround.
She also said some items onboard like glassware and china broke.

--
dillon

Could have been is in the past
Could be is in the future
There is only the now

Charles wrote:
In article , Dick G.
dickdotgoldhaber@gmaildotcom wrote:


Thankfully, Charles, when I got knocked on my butt on Statendam, the only
thing that got broke were the dishes that we brought back to the room with
desserts which we had placed on the mantle over the refrigerator.


Had a similiar situation on Celebrity Century several years ago.
Happened in the middle of the night. Nothing broke in the cabin, I
almost fell off the bed and all the drawers in the cabin came open.
Elsewhere on the ship the Grand Piano tipped over, lots of displays
broke including their liquor display and glass broke. They never would
say exactly why the ship turned liked that but the rumor was it was to
avoid a fishing boat.

I think we were on the same cruise. Was it a 1999 July Baltic trip?

In article , CFL
wrote:

I think we were on the same cruise. Was it a 1999 July Baltic trip?

No, it was a July Caribbean sailing. I don't recall the year right now.

--
Charles

I finally located a photo of a U.S. Navy carrier doing a power turn...
which was probably a simular senario aboard the Grand Princess.

It looks like about a 25 degree list... which is kind of awesome.

It can be viewed at:

http://mysite.verizon.net/res7pent/w...os2/index.html

Hopefully the above URL will work. I'm just now trying out my
Verizon web site capabilities and am a "newbie" at this sort
of thing.

Best regards

Bill

Been on one doing this and it is a TOTALLY Awesome experience.
Thanks for the link - it worked fine.
Cheers,
John

The picture depicts what happens when Clint's cow tips too far to one
side.