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10/06/2009 09:52:06 PM · #26 |
Here's a shot of the Grand Princess. Note the tiny people embarking and on the top deck.
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10/08/2009 11:13:50 AM · #27 |
Independence of the Seas makes the Grand Princess look like a tugboat. Just trying to score points in the my-boat-is-bigger-than-your-boat competition :)
(I shot this in Cozumel on Christmas Day last year.) |
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10/08/2009 12:29:13 PM · #28 |
| I booked 2 weeks back-to-back next May for my hubby's 40th on the Oasis. :D |
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11/13/2009 01:24:40 PM · #29 |
| So, Florida folks, where are the pictures of the arrival of Oasis this morning?!? I'm waaaaaaaiting...! |
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11/13/2009 03:39:47 PM · #30 |
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11/13/2009 03:43:51 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by alanfreed:
So, Florida folks, where are the pictures of the arrival of Oasis this morning?!? I'm waaaaaaaiting...! |
My cousin lives in Fort Lauderdale. I just called him and asked if he could go take a picture of the ship. He going to try to go today or tomorrow.
I was reading an article last week and if I'm not mistaken it said the ship was 16 decks and 1/4 of a mile long. To give perspective this mill (Bibb Manufacturing plant) in Columbus, Bibb city, GA. is (was) 4 to 6 stories high and 1/4 mile long. That a huge boat!
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Message edited by author 2009-11-13 15:45:06. |
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07/11/2010 01:00:21 PM · #32 |
Yes, I am resurrecting an old thread!
Last year when Robert posted this, I was really disappointed to have missed seeing the maiden voyage of that big cruise liner.
This year, I have a not to myself to remember to head over to Turku later this year if I can.
I just returned from a glorious weekend down in the Finnish Archipelago. Happened to drive by the shipyard where the Allure of the Seas is being built. Scheduled to be available for December 2010, so I must remind myself to check in to see when I need to head down to Turku again. Pretty darned impressive, I have to say.
 
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07/11/2010 05:34:27 PM · #33 |
| Man, I hope it comes with a detailed map. Wonder if GPS would work on that thing to find your room once you got lost?? |
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07/11/2010 05:36:37 PM · #34 |
| With a ship that size I hope they'd go beyond mere maps and floorplans, and just implant everyone with a GPS device during their trip! :-0 |
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07/11/2010 05:55:40 PM · #35 |
| Seems just about the same size as those colonizing spaceships sci-fi writers were always sending to the stars before Earth was destroyed ... it might make a good venue to practice exercising the temporary civilization needed to survive such a voyage, as the way things are going, I'm afraid we may have to consider such a project rather more seriously than any of those writers ever did ... ;-) |
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07/11/2010 06:16:46 PM · #36 |
| I think you're right, Paul. Wasn't that the idea behind 2012? That only those on vast cruise ships lived? |
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07/11/2010 06:38:42 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
I think you're right, Paul. Wasn't that the idea behind 2012? That only those on vast cruise ships lived? |
If that's true, I'm betting the cruise ships will see very high booking rates for the end of 2011/beginning of 2012. Get your reservations today, people! |
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07/11/2010 09:21:49 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
I think you're right, Paul. Wasn't that the idea behind 2012? That only those on vast cruise ships lived? |
Unless those "reading' those Mayan inscriptions missed an important negative symbol, and that those who fled to sea on cruise ships perished in the tsunamis which accompanied the earthquakes (can't have the end of the world without earthquakes, can you?) ... :-( |
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07/11/2010 10:20:07 PM · #39 |
I hear they serve dinner with a babel fish.
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Seems just about the same size as those colonizing spaceships sci-fi writers were always sending to the stars before Earth was destroyed ... it might make a good venue to practice exercising the temporary civilization needed to survive such a voyage, as the way things are going, I'm afraid we may have to consider such a project rather more seriously than any of those writers ever did ... ;-) |
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07/11/2010 10:50:09 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by snaffles:
I think you're right, Paul. Wasn't that the idea behind 2012? That only those on vast cruise ships lived? |
Unless those "reading' those Mayan inscriptions missed an important negative symbol, and that those who fled to sea on cruise ships perished in the tsunamis which accompanied the earthquakes (can't have the end of the world without earthquakes, can you?) ... :-( |
lolz. I just watched that amazing peice of canine feces a few weeks ago. One of my 'favorite' parts was when the cruise ship got rolled over by 'tsunamis' in the middle of the ocean from an 8.6 and a 7.9 earthquake.
Such a tsunami would barely even be felt. A 2-man rowboat could probably weather such an event without even mildly worrying its occupants.
I'm curious about what kind of event could actually cause a wave large enough to actually roll a cruise ship in the open seas... |
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07/11/2010 10:57:39 PM · #41 |
| A direct strike from a large meteor might do it. Read a book a LONG time ago - "Lucifer's Hammer", I believe it was, by Nivens and Pournelle. Great read for an end of the world story! |
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07/11/2010 11:00:04 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by eschelar:
I'm curious about what kind of event could actually cause a wave large enough to actually roll a cruise ship in the open seas... |
A nearby meteor strike would do the trick. ;-) |
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07/11/2010 11:01:47 PM · #43 |
"The Poseidon Adventure" had a cruise ship rolled by rogue wave. Not inconceivable but very unlikely.
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07/11/2010 11:04:18 PM · #44 |
Excerpt from Wiki on Rogue Waves
Once thought by scientists to exist only in legends, rogue waves are now known to be a natural ocean phenomenon. Eyewitness accounts from mariners and damages inflicted on ships have long suggested they occurred; however, their scientific measurement was only positively confirmed following measurements of the "Draupner wave", a rogue wave at the Draupner platform, in the North Sea on January 1, 1995. During this event, minor damage was inflicted on the platform, confirming that the reading was valid. Satellite images have also confirmed their existence.[2]
Freak waves have been cited in the media as a likely source of the sudden, inexplicable disappearance of many ocean-going vessels. One of the very few cases in which evidence exists that may indicate a freak wave incident is the 1978 loss of the freighter MS München, detailed below. In February 2000, a British oceanographic research vessel sailing in the Rockall Trough west of Scotland encountered the largest waves ever recorded by scientific instruments in the open ocean, with a SWH of 18.5 meters (61 ft) and individual waves up to 29.1 meters (95 ft).[3] "In 2004 scientists using three weeks of radar images from European Space Agency satellites found ten rogue waves, each 25 metres or higher."[1]
A rogue wave is not the same as a tsunami.[1] Tsunamis are mass displacement-generated waves which propagate at high speed and are more or less unnoticeable in deep water; they only become dangerous as they approach the shoreline and do not present a threat to shipping (the only ships lost in the 2004 Asian tsunami were in port). A rogue wave, on the other hand, is a spatially and temporally localized event that most frequently occurs far out at sea.[1]
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07/11/2010 11:22:53 PM · #45 |
| wow amazing how off topic a thread can go. |
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07/11/2010 11:25:13 PM · #46 |
Originally posted by salmiakki:
wow amazing how off topic a thread can go. |
That's the beauty of it, don'tcha know? :-) Can't wait to see your pics of the maiden voyage down the archipalego, before the wave gets her... Jejejeâ„¢
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Message edited by author 2010-07-11 23:26:06. |
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