January 20, 2012: Italian Cruise Ship
 

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This is a satellite pic of the Italian Cruise Ship that capsized recently. Take a look at the full pic here to get a sense of scale.

Looks like you can almost step right across to the rocks without getting your feet wet.

(Goes for the obvious)
Shopped.

Nice pic. That sucker is huge. Maybe scale it down a bit the next time.:right:

When did it become the 20th? :-)

what's up with that tapeworm?

He's part Samoan.

What a huge load of ship!

It's a paramecium.

I didn't realize it was vertical. That is frightening!

Look at the tiny hull.
New cruise ships are like the man who built his house on sand.

Is he related to the man who bought a dog and walked it all at once?

I guess this is the rock that jumped out at him.
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A wanton act of aggression on the part of that rock!

Will those Somalians stop at nothing?

Wonton? They had the wreck catered?

Parts of that hull look like it's made out of plastic.

When I first saw that picture I thought it was a giant shark with a rock in its mouth.

Go look again.

So I was looking at the first picture and thinking 'huh what?'

But you're right, the other picture is definitely a shark eating a rock!

We're going to need a bigger boat!

Um.. No. You have it wrong. It's a Euglena.




Like the scumbag captain's Ego!


And that rock? No, not the one that bit it. That's a local one the ship landed on. The fatal blow occurred about a mile away.

OMG you're right. How embarrassing, after I proclaimed my eternal love for Euglena in the Favorite One-celled Organism thread. I'm so cilia. Someone should flagellate me. :p:

:D But IM, for two in one sentence you must stand in the Pun Corner for 10 min.

I LOVE the pun corner!

(rushes to corner)

:)

:eyebrow:
But LL, for not knowing how to count, you must stand in the math corner for ten minutes. After that, another ten minutes in the basic sentence structure corner.

So that's, like, what, 30 minutes altogether?

Now now, there are enough corners for us all. All four of us. :rolleyes:

The rest of them can go *#&#% themselves in Perfectland, where every room is perfectly round.

And they go around the squirrel.

:lol:

I slay me.

around that...

So.....is the pic 'shopped or not?

No! Not shopped at all.

Unless you have as much bread as Bill Gates and such, you cannot shop this ship :)

Ship Facts

Lenght: 290 .00 m
Beam: 36.00 m
Draft: 8.00 m
Gross Tonnage : 114,500 m.t.
Passengers: 3,700
Crew: 1,100
Decks: 17
Engine: Wartsila, 12-cylinder
Power: 12,000 kW
Speed: 23.0 kn
Built: 2006
Shipyard: Fincantieri Yards
Price: 600 millions USD

Some of those numbers need updating...

Thanks Zen, I just woke everyone up with my laughing

height
more than we thought

#16 made me think of the expression 'rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic'.

I think this is a case where the problem comes down to top management.

'rearranging deck chairs on the starboard walls of each room on the Titanic'.

WHS :lol:

"There are three things I like about being on an Italian cruise ship. First, their cuisine is unsurpassed. Second, their service is superb. And then, in time of emergency, there is none of this nonsense about women and children first."

– Winston Churchill

:D

Probably an urban legend, but two people in my choir say that the music playing on the cruise ship when it hit the rock was "My Heart Will Go On".

Ironic if true, but probably not.

Nah. For one thing, a ship that big has got several clubs and/or ballrooms per deck, which would each have different music playing.

What they meant to say was they wished Celine Dion had been steering, as she'd have no doubt done a better job.

Please explain in the context of Kodak, Borders Books, Mervyns, and Northwest Airlines.

Reincarnation.:rolleyes:

A pic from inside:


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Pretty creepy.. It's amazing a whole lot more people didn't cash it in.

The captain of the Costa Concordia started his new job today.
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The Costa Concordia is stuck on rocks. The only reason why it has not slipped into a 200 foot undersea canyon. A major rescue operation has been ongoing for almost two years. This should be months or less from righting and floating the Concordia from its crash site.

The ship must be righted and raised from existing rocks without sliding sideways into deeper water. Otherwise the wreck can become an ecological disaster to a sensitive and protected reserve.

This engineering feat is so significant that is should be reported live.

Who is the insurance agent who sold them the policy?

He's dead. He was lost overboard on a subsequent cruise.

I should begin in hours (on Monday).

Washington Post
9/15/13

Shipwrecked Concordia wrested off Italian reef yet operation slowed by delays and cable glitch
As the hull is moved upright, it will come to rest on an underwater platform:

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(...They hope...)

Suck cess!!

Yes. Here is the ship NEW and NOW

Looks like some of the 'new' rubbed off.