Stranded cruise ship/mother in law

[Bicycle Bill]

why were the ships not able to dumb their holding tanks out at sea? i wonder if the generators did not operate the holding pumps...looks like they would have some type of manual system to dump...

First of all, that requires the power to be operating.  The days of the manual bilge pumps have gone the way of marlinspikes, jibsprits, and staysails.
Secondly, I believe that there's this annoying little international law that prohibits that sort of thing, even under circumstances like these.

Frankly, when they started designing and building this new breed of 'super-liners' that look less like ships and more like hotels on a hull, I wonder if they ever considered the problems of caring for 5000 passengers and crew under less-than-ideal conditions.  Doesn't seem like it.....

-"BB"-

[Bicycle Bill]

...SNIP...
Honestly, I think I've had enough of cruising.....it's a week of gluttony and crowds....
I still just want to rent the island at French Louie Caye for a week and go all sorts of Gilligan.
http://www.frenchlouiecaye.com/

Seriously, if you really want a Giligans' Island experience, check out Jeep Island in Micronesia.

It is tiny and massively isolated - but the resort will bring food and foo-foo drink supplies each day...

http://www.bluelagoondiveresort.com/blu ... lands.html

A bit bigger but no less Gilligans' Island is Tranquillity Resort in Vanuatu

http://www.tranquillityislandecoresort.com/

I've visited both and they are for hard-core kicking back and extreme relaxing. Well if you can get over the urge to keep a look out for the Professor or Mary-Anne...

I would definitely bring my own Mary Ann if I were to go for something like this.
As for Mary Ann herself, she don't look too bad for a girl in her seventies....


-"BB"-

[CaptainP]

One of the buses taking passesgers to NOLA broke down.
good grief

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bus-tr ... she,31322/

it's from The Onion...not true.

I know. But sometimes it's fun to pretend that their stories are for real...

see post previous to this?

The fact a bus broke down, that's true. The Onion just took it to a crazy extreme...

[Rabbitz]

...SNIP...
Honestly, I think I've had enough of cruising.....it's a week of gluttony and crowds....
I still just want to rent the island at French Louie Caye for a week and go all sorts of Gilligan.
http://www.frenchlouiecaye.com/

Seriously, if you really want a Giligans' Island experience, check out Jeep Island in Micronesia.

It is tiny and massively isolated - but the resort will bring food and foo-foo drink supplies each day...

http://www.bluelagoondiveresort.com/blu ... lands.html

A bit bigger but no less Gilligans' Island is Tranquillity Resort in Vanuatu

http://www.tranquillityislandecoresort.com/

I've visited both and they are for hard-core kicking back and extreme relaxing. Well if you can get over the urge to keep a look out for the Professor or Mary-Anne...

I would definitely bring my own Mary Ann if I were to go for something like this.
As for Mary Ann herself, she don't look too bad for a girl in her seventies....


-"BB"-

True beauty will always shine through -whether that is inner or outer beauty it holds true.

[CaptainP]

Seriously, why would anyone EVER go near a Carnival Cruise Ship? Another one:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/travel/cr ... index.html

[dnw]

Seriously, why would anyone EVER go near a Carnival Cruise Ship? Another one:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/travel/cr ... index.html

Wow, Carnival is having it's share of problems.

[CaptainP]

Seriously, why would anyone EVER go near a Carnival Cruise Ship? Another one:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/travel/cr ... index.html

Wow, Carnival is having it's share of problems.

Personally, I'll go with it being the passengers who are having their share of problems. Like wading through poop.

[Bicycle Bill]

"It could be worse —
   we could have booked on Carnival...."

-"BB"-

[dnw]

Seriously, why would anyone EVER go near a Carnival Cruise Ship? Another one:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/travel/cr ... index.html

Wow, Carnival is having it's share of problems.

Personally, I'll go with it being the passengers who are having their share of problems. Like wading through poop.

Yes, they are having major problems.

[dnw]

Seriously, why would anyone EVER go near a Carnival Cruise Ship? Another one:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/travel/cr ... index.html

Wow, Carnival is having it's share of problems.

Personally, I'll go with it being the passengers who are having their share of problems. Like wading through poop.

Yes, they are having major problems.

[Carolinadreamin']

FlipFlop (Christine) was supposed to board this ship on Saturday.........well not now..........

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/travel/cr ... ?hpt=hp_t1

[tigzoe]

FlipFlop (Christine) was supposed to board this ship on Saturday.........well not now..........

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/travel/cr ... ?hpt=hp_t1

I saw that earlier. Yikes!!!!

[Coconuts]

Aaand now it's the Legend, too. Sounds like they broke one of the Azipods (from a quick Google, it sounds like it's the tranny for one of the props), so everything is fine, they're just moving slowly.