Sensible Erection | Pacific Sun cruiseliner gets tossed around big time by the sea (to the tune "Sailing")

Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Pacific Sun cruiseliner gets tossed around big time by the sea (to the tune "Sailing")

quote [ The impact of massive waves that struck a cruise ship during a storm off New Zealand have been revealed by CCTV footage posted on the internet. ]

Main link is to Liveleak video with funny accompanying music track. Extended has article, another instance of a liner in a storm (thumb is from that) and a somewhat more serious take on the problem. Why don't they tie stuff down and provide seat belts somewhere aboard?

Article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1310049/P-O-Pacific-Sun-cruise-ship-passengers-sent-flying-high-seas-storm.html

Older article of similar incident aboard the Balmoral:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1129302/Pictured-Storm-tosses-massive-cruise-liner-like-toy-boat.html

[humour] [by maryyugo@6:27pmGMT] [+10 WTF]

Comments

KropperPrime said @ 6:28pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:1 WTF]
That video was posted in a comment in the post about the rapture.

Just saying.

sanepride said @ 6:35pm GMT on 8th Sep
...and in the post about good study habits.

symmetrian said @ 6:35pm GMT on 8th Sep
As was the "tie stuff down" comment. The company has already rectified these issues.

maryyugo said @ 6:39pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:2 Underrated]
Ah gee... ya can't find stuff posted in comments with any reasonable search. Thanks for the heads up. No time to change it now. Meebee later.

maryyugo said @ 6:42pm GMT on 8th Sep
Worse yet, Sensible Facial doesn't let me see the usual Youtube screen in posted videos-- just a black rectangle so unless I click on EVERY video in EVERY comment, I don't have any hope of seeing those.

beats2001 said @ 6:46pm GMT on 8th Sep
I see what you mean since Greasemonkey is impossible to turn off.

maryyugo said @ 6:57pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:1 Underrated]
Of course. Why didn't I think of that? The whole purpose of sensible facial is to have it turned off while looking at SE. Silly me.

oddzer said @ 7:44pm GMT on 8th Sep
You guys are talking really funny. Is this opposite day? Is it opposite day and nobody told me?

audioblood said @ 7:49pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/81618

Gunner v2.0 said @ 9:57pm GMT on 8th Sep
If I say yes, will you believe me?

oddzer said @ 3:57pm GMT on 9th Sep

Djonn Doh! said @ 9:58pm GMT on 8th Sep
...or you could just uncheck "Replace embedded videos with placeholders" in the sensible facial settings and see if it's any better?

Dioxin said @ 11:41pm GMT on 8th Sep
Is this your opposite day way of saying that's unpossible?

atter_cob said @ 6:45pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:1 WTF]
"Passengers who were aboard the journey were offered a 25 per cent reduction in the cost of a future cruise."

Well, that seems like a reasonable compensation for being on a ship where nothing is tied down and you get tables and chairs tossed on you.

KropperPrime said @ 9:32pm GMT on 8th Sep
Basically turning a catastrophe into a marketing ploy.

Now they have to dish out 75% of the aforementioned "future cruise", in order to cash in on their "compensation".

How about they refund 25% of the horrible cruise they just had.

captainstubing said @ 9:42pm GMT on 8th Sep
Agreed, but it does give you a clue where their margins are...

JOECAM said @ 6:46pm GMT on 8th Sep
http://i.imgur.com/s31lZ.jpg

graham said @ 6:46pm GMT on 8th Sep

brat#3 said @ 10:22pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:1 Funny]
Great, now my daughter wants a manticore for Christmas.

theolypse said @ 10:41pm GMT on 8th Sep
Otherwise, we'd wonder if she were really yours.

structured_spirits said @ 6:07am GMT on 9th Sep
Prince Adam and Cringer? By the powers of Greyskull!

excellMint said @ 6:48pm GMT on 8th Sep
This is easier...

Name that song someone?

De_Wr0ng said @ 6:54pm GMT on 8th Sep
I laughed so hard when I first saw this that for a very brief moment, I actually felt bad about myself.

anagramophone said @ 7:01pm GMT on 8th Sep
Snoop tries to rent entire country

Ankylosaur said @ 7:28pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:1 Informative]
Snoop partners with Norton to take on cybercrime with his "Hack Is Wack!" project

-_- said @ 7:05pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:1 Underrated]
When I was in the Navy we turned the ship sideways against 50ft swells and the whole thing rocked port to starboard at a 45%+ angle.
Then we had a "man overboard" drill which means everyone had to report to main deck for a headcount.
I fondly remember the deck swaying such that I could reach directly in front of me and touch it then wait a few seconds and reach behind me to touch it again .. all without bending my spine at all :)

To be fair, the main deck of Navy ships are painted with "Non-Skid", and it lives up to it's name.

That was a good day ;D

Krutz said @ 7:26pm GMT on 8th Sep
I have to say this is more fun to watch than all those stomach virus outbreaks and fires that plagued cruise lines a few years back.

Though there was some sinister glee in seeing a Disney ship belching smoke.

sanepride said @ 7:43pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:2 Funny]
Well...could have been worse.

Ankylosaur said @ 7:57pm GMT on 8th Sep
Could've been even worse:

the belt said @ 8:08pm GMT on 8th Sep
Or even even worse:

drd69 said @ 8:19pm GMT on 8th Sep
Just saw that movie last week in HD.
Saved it on my PVR. Awesome.

mischa said @ 8:42pm GMT on 8th Sep
it was on cable the other day, I am not sure how much of it I sat through but lets just say I did not see the end of that one..

De_Wr0ng said @ 9:56pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:1 Funny]
At least those tables and chairs were bolted down to the floor!!!!!!!!!!

drd69 said @ 8:11pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
Look at the woman in the upper right corner of the vid in black.
Man does she nail that pole and then to add insult to injury she gets covered in furniture.

drd69 said @ 8:18pm GMT on 8th Sep
-1 old as well.
This happened in July 2008.

According to London's Daily Telegraph, 42 people were injured after the P&O ship ran into a storm about 650 kilometres of the coast of New Zealand in July 2008.

See Link

maryyugo said @ 8:21pm GMT on 8th Sep
The *event* is old. The videos were released yesterday. I suspect through clandestine channels, eventually ending up at the main link and at Youtube.

maryyugo said @ 8:22pm GMT on 8th Sep
"Passengers tossed like dolls as waves hit ship
Postmedia News September 8, 2010"

That date is from YOUR link.

drd69 said @ 8:26pm GMT on 8th Sep
True but as stated this happened in July 2008.
It just surfaced hence why no official -1 old.

drd69 said @ 8:23pm GMT on 8th Sep

fhufi said @ 10:20pm GMT on 8th Sep [Score:2]

mwoody said @ 12:19am GMT on 9th Sep [Score:3 Funny]
Are they filming from a vuvuzela-copter?

sacrelicious said @ 11:14pm GMT on 8th Sep
it had to happen eventually: somebody just had to make a low-budget ripoff of Inception...