Brilliance of the Seas

A report on the LinersList reports Brilliance of the Seas having a
rough go of it in the Med. She is apparently near Pireaus, Greece,
and encountered some very rough seas. Broken glass (30 passengers
with minor injuries from it), sliding beds, a piano that smashed into
a wall, gym equipment damaged, etc.... The ship is en route to Malta,
and expects to arrive within 24 hours.

The reports also mention that the main bars were closed, but a smaller
bar below decks remained open!!

Peg in NYC

On 12/12/10 8:08 PM, Peg Caldwell-Ott wrote:

A report on the LinersList reports Brilliance of the Seas having a
rough go of it in the Med. She is apparently near Pireaus, Greece,
and encountered some very rough seas. Broken glass (30 passengers
with minor injuries from it), sliding beds, a piano that smashed into
a wall, gym equipment damaged, etc.... The ship is en route to Malta,
and expects to arrive within 24 hours.

The reports also mention that the main bars were closed, but a smaller
bar below decks remained open!!

Peg in NYC


Yikes... and it's not even the Atlantic.

--Tom

Tom K wrote:
On 12/12/10 8:08 PM, Peg Caldwell-Ott wrote:

A report on the LinersList reports Brilliance of the Seas having a
rough go of it in the Med. She is apparently near Pireaus, Greece,
and encountered some very rough seas. Broken glass (30 passengers
with minor injuries from it), sliding beds, a piano that smashed into
a wall, gym equipment damaged, etc.... The ship is en route to Malta,
and expects to arrive within 24 hours.

The reports also mention that the main bars were closed, but a smaller
bar below decks remained open!!

Peg in NYC


Yikes... and it's not even the Atlantic.

--Tom

At least a bar is open!

Those smaller/mid size ships really rock when the weather
gets rough.

On 12/12/2010 8:12 PM, Tom K wrote:
On 12/12/10 8:08 PM, Peg Caldwell-Ott wrote:

A report on the LinersList reports Brilliance of the Seas having a
rough go of it in the Med. She is apparently near Pireaus, Greece,
and encountered some very rough seas. Broken glass (30 passengers
with minor injuries from it), sliding beds, a piano that smashed into
a wall, gym equipment damaged, etc.... The ship is en route to Malta,
and expects to arrive within 24 hours.

The reports also mention that the main bars were closed, but a smaller
bar below decks remained open!!

Peg in NYC


Yikes... and it's not even the Atlantic.

--Tom

We did a transatlantic last year from Barcelona and the water in the
Atlantic was like a sheet of glass. Much calmer than the Med.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:19:24 -0500, frijoli wrote:

Those smaller/mid size ships really rock when the weather
gets rough.

Back in the 1950's, my parents sailed from the UK to Australia on a 23,500 ton vessel (RMS
Strathmore). These days the lifeboats are nearly as big as the Strathmore! ;-)

On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:08:29 -0500, Peg Caldwell-Ott wrote:

A report on the LinersList reports Brilliance of the Seas having a
rough go of it in the Med. She is apparently near Pireaus, Greece,
and encountered some very rough seas. Broken glass (30 passengers
with minor injuries from it), sliding beds, a piano that smashed into
a wall, gym equipment damaged, etc.... The ship is en route to Malta,
and expects to arrive within 24 hours.

lol I wonder if the pool table is still level.

The reports also mention that the main bars were closed, but a smaller
bar below decks remained open!!

Peg in NYC

Oh yeah, our fav bar.
--
Ari Silverstein, C.T.A; C.T.A.S, FREE Cruise Travel Advisory Services
I never have nor ever will solicit or accept a booking.

They are making humungous ships and god forbid one day there is going to
be a terrible tragedy.you hear about more and more ships having problems
while at sea.





cruise lover(~~~~~)






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On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:18:46 -0500, Surfer E2468 wrote:

They are making humungous ships and god forbid one day there is going to
be a terrible tragedy.

The cruise lines and DHS/TSA certainly agree. We had very focused
security review contracts, one of them being the Miami flotilla and
the surrounding container storage areas.

At any time, there were more people in and about the port, several
times more, than were involved in the WTCs.

That was before the mega-mega ships like OOTS and her sisters.
--
Ari Silverstein, C.T.A; C.T.A.S, FREE Cruise Travel Advisory Services
I never have nor ever will solicit or accept a booking.

On 12/13/2010 12:50 AM, Ari Silverstein, C.T.A. wrote:

lol I wonder if the pool table is still level.


That was the question here, too. We'd never seen a pool table with a
gyroscope until we sailed Brilliance. She's among our favorites in the
fleet.
--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.