Goodnight, sweet prince

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/14/world/europe/italy-cruise-deaths/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

1/14/2012 10:47:03 AM

Italy has bad luck with cruise ships y'all

1/14/2012 10:50:33 AM

but the titanic sunk in 1912

1/14/2012 4:26:25 PM

Abandoning ship????

Really?

1/14/2012 4:41:53 PM

Fitting metaphor for the Italian economy

1/14/2012 4:48:19 PM

everyone abandoned ship but the walk-ons

1/15/2012 12:28:24 AM

I didnt even know that was an arrestable offense. I guess I can cross of cruise captain on my Optional Career List.

1/15/2012 12:30:14 AM

Charges are manslaughter, shipwreck, abandoning ship with passengers still on board, etc..


Aha, he's the personification of DERP

1/17/2012 7:26:43 AM

i like how dude is like "i didn't put those rocks there. ain't my fault, yo. scusi"

1/17/2012 8:17:39 AM

its a tarp!

1/17/2012 8:19:47 AM

Where is the shop of roy driving the ship or running away from it?

1/17/2012 8:22:21 AM

Apparently he was saluting an island or something

1/17/2012 8:29:27 AM

so sad

1/17/2012 8:55:16 AM

How long until the Discovery special on the cleanup?

1/17/2012 8:57:12 AM

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"everyone abandoned ship but the walk-ons"

haha, awesome. someone please shop Roy running.

if the ship doesnt sink, what would the captain do? stay on there until they demo it? die of old age on a shipwreck above water?

1/17/2012 9:28:48 AM

We were in the Bahamas over the weekend and we met a couple who was on a cruise. They said the cruise ship wasn't showing any news of the cruise ship sinking on the TVs on the ship


They didn't know the cruise ship had sunk until they got off the ship in Freeport.

1/17/2012 9:38:36 AM

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" in the Bahamas over the weekend "

does not compute. were you there for just the weekend?

[Edited on January 17, 2012 at 10:06 AM. Reason : a]

1/17/2012 10:06:17 AM

yes, got in Friday night, left yesterday afternoon

Quick weekend getaway. Went to Freeport.

1/17/2012 10:41:19 AM

Five more bodies found.

When asked, the ship captain had this to say:


Herpa lederp derp derp derpa herpa derp!

1/17/2012 10:44:56 AM

isn't that our old soccer coach?

tarantini or whoever?

1/17/2012 11:14:05 AM

[Edited on January 17, 2012 at 11:51 AM. Reason : close]

1/17/2012 11:50:21 AM

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"yes, got in Friday night, left yesterday afternoon Quick weekend getaway. Went to Freeport."

How much did you actually pay since you undoubtedly used coupons to get there on the cheap?

1/17/2012 11:54:45 AM

I work in the accounting department for my mom's travel agency so I get a "travel agent's" discount at hotels when I travel.

Flights were through Vision Air.

Total for round trip flights and hotel for 2 people was right around $972.00

Flights were ~497.00 total for 2 and hotel was $475.00. The hotel bill included room service, food, drinks etc

Airfare: http://www.visionairlines.com/index.html
Hotel: Grand Lucayan Resort by Radisson http://www.grandlucayan.com/

[Edited on January 17, 2012 at 12:33 PM. Reason : f]

1/17/2012 12:30:00 PM

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"I didnt even know that was an arrestable offense. I guess I can cross of cruise captain on my Optional Career List. "

In Italy, it's a 12 year prison sentence if convicted. They don't play with their maritime law!

1/17/2012 1:35:38 PM

How the hell did people drown? Its like 100 feet from shore! Even if you can't swim, you could doggy paddle that far.

1/17/2012 1:41:29 PM

One of the articles I read said people were stuck inside the ship, and couldn't get out / had to tie bedsheets together to get up the hallways.

1/17/2012 1:42:42 PM

Yeah, you'd have to be an idiot to drown in this lovely little swimming pool in the pitch black. Passengers were told to go back to their cabins and wait. Hell on earth.

1/17/2012 1:53:58 PM

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"How the hell did people drown? Its like 100 feet from shore! Even if you can't swim, you could doggy paddle that far."

Theyre trapped IN a boat. Nobody has been able to swim through walls since the philadelphia experiment.

1/17/2012 1:56:22 PM

or have they?

1/17/2012 1:58:59 PM

Well pardon me. I thought it was just a free for all where folks were jumping in the water and drowning like black folk.

1/17/2012 2:08:02 PM

Interesting, I have that same bottom timer.

1/17/2012 2:33:03 PM

The Uwatec's are the best.

1/17/2012 2:35:32 PM

Until they tell you you're 4ft underwater when you're still in the parking lot walking to the dive site.

1/17/2012 2:39:34 PM

why do they call them dive computers

1/17/2012 2:39:35 PM

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"why do they call them dive computers"

The device worn by the guy in the photo is specifically a bottom timer and nothing else -- it shows you current depth, max depth, time, and temperature. It does not calculate anything.

Other devices calculate a no-decompression limit based on several decompression algorithms. If you stay past NDL, many will calculate a deco stop or two for you.

1/17/2012 2:41:43 PM

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"Well pardon me. I thought it was just a free for all where folks were jumping in the water and drowning like black folk."

LOLZ

1/17/2012 2:45:00 PM

interesting...i figured dive computers were just basically watches, didnt realize they did calculations

1/17/2012 2:45:26 PM

Steaming too close to the coast, make a dumb-shit move, and vessel completely worthless. I hate it when that happens.

1/17/2012 3:06:06 PM

USA #1

1/19/2012 9:20:17 AM

Ahahahahhahaha

The situation isn't funny, but damn....how much fail can you put into 3 words?

1/19/2012 9:23:33 AM

lol

1/19/2012 9:25:32 AM

Some are calling the captain the REAL chicken of the sea

1/19/2012 12:50:23 PM

oh, that's clever

1/19/2012 12:58:07 PM

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"Passengers were told to go back to their cabins and wait."

Wow...That's terrible.
And a good example of why you have to use some common sense, look out for your own best interests, and not blindly follow the self appointed leaders in situations like this.

[Edited on January 19, 2012 at 1:02 PM. Reason : s]

1/19/2012 1:02:22 PM

in every interview, and every news anchor keep saying how much it is like the titanic. Let's list some reason why it is NOT the same as the fucking titanic and more like a capsized cruise liner 100 yards from shore:

-death toll is like 11 (1503 died from the titanic wreck)
-rescue equipment like a helicopter (titanic, no helicopters)
-captain abandoned a relatively non threatening situation where he could actually help rescuers and help them understand the layout of the ship and other intricacies (Capt. Smith stayed on board and went down with his ship like a real man)

1/19/2012 1:07:47 PM

1/19/2012 1:11:10 PM

Yeah but how many other big ships that've sunk could the average person name?

Probably zero, so Titanic is their only natural comparison, however non-analogous they may be.

1/19/2012 1:12:44 PM

HAHAHAHAHA BIGMAN!!!!!!

1/19/2012 1:13:08 PM

didn't yogi's ark sink in the pacific?

1/19/2012 1:13:47 PM

Up to 1987, the Titanic disaster marked the Second greatest loss of life in peacetime maritime history. (over 1,500) On December 20, 1987, the overcrowded Philippine ferry boat, Dona Paz, collided with an oil tanker off the island of Mindoro (south of Manila) The Dona Paz flipped over and sank taking with it the lives of 4,536 passengers and crew.

Prior to the Dona Paz tragedy, the greatest maritime loss of life in peacetime is credited to the SS Sultana. The Sultana was assigned to bring home US soldiers liberated from the confederate run POW camp at Andersonville,Texas. She picked up her 2,200 union soldiers at Vicksburg, MS in August of 1865, On the way home one of her boilers exploded and she sank killing 1,647 passengers and crew.

it was a capsized vessel and people died, that is the story... I get it if the survivors wanna make that analogy, it must of been tramatic, but what is with all these dang news stories

1/19/2012 1:19:00 PM