With the cruise ship dead in the water.
I can understand the idea of going to a luxury resort, one with pampering, entertainment and lots of good food. But why go to a resort that can both catch fire and sink? If you go to a hotel that loses power, you can at least go to another hotel or go home.
Hard to do that on a ship. At least the seas don't seem to be too bad. If there was a significant sea state, that pig of a ship would be a very uncomfortable place to be.
Observational Skill: 10/10. Timing: -10/10.
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Clearly you are not a fan of cruises. I'd pay extra to have them pull this off on a cruise that I'd booked -- extra time off work that no one can do anything about, pretty much all the same great food that you get all the time, and they're both refunding the passengers' money AND giving them a free equivalent booking. These guys have PR nailed!
Doesn't look fun at all.
No hot water, food or adequate power
and minimum toilets and cold water after a day or two.
If anything the DC team on the cruise ship seems to be lacking in capability.
Either that is a lot of unreported damage in the aft engine areas.
Eck!
Frankly, I'm shocked the crew didn't just abandon the passengers to their fate.
http://videosift.com/video/Cruise-ship-sinks-crew-abandon-passengers
Chis, cold food, no a/c, yeah, my idea of fun.
Nangleator, the days of the "passengers first" ended when the RMS Titanic went down.
I am baffled. There is only one generator on these cruise ships? Only one source of hot water? What, they pine for the days of steam when the hot water was tapped off the boilers and try to emulate it with modern gas turbines?
Oh wait... a large backup generator would cost MONEY. And we can't have that. Alrighty, then!
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
BadTux, they may have once tapped hot water directly from the boiler, but that stopped a long time ago. They use evaporators to make the water. The hot water is probably heated in hot water heaters throughout the ship that use either electricity or steam from small boilers.
They probably have several generators, but they are also probably all in one machinery room. So a fire in that machinery space would take them all out.
A cruise does not appeal to me. This story didn't help.
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