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12-20-2019, 12:43 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Originally Posted by sengsational
My nephew and his family were on one of the two ships that collided at the dock today in Cozumel.
They were on the one that didn't get much damage.
I wonder what was happening in the dining room at the time. Either there wasn't anyone sitting there, or it happened slow enough for everybody to get out of harm's way. The times involved are in the many second range (apparently there's a video, but I haven't seen it). I imagine from first touch to when they stopped converging was more than 5 seconds, so some time to run.
harbor pilot or one of the ship's personnel (captain) was at the controls.
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I saw reports that a person was injured running out of the dining room. And the video I saw clearly showed people in the above balconies not running away but watching the event.
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12-20-2019, 01:31 PM
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Has Elon Musk seen this? He would have proposed to do an autopilot for these ships. 
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Originally Posted by sengsational
EDIT: Just saw the video, not many seconds to run! [ |
There's time, but you've got to be alert and quick on your feet. If you snooze, you lose (your life).
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12-20-2019, 01:50 PM
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After the above collision, the Carnival ship that got the stern (rear) damage almost collided with the Royal Carribean ship from where the above video was taken.
Perhaps these cruise lines take competition too seriously. "Hey, that's my docking spot!". "No, I got here first". "But my ship is bigger, you've got to yield". "Hell, no".
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12-20-2019, 02:28 PM
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Excitable little devils ain't they? And they're on a ship and don't know it's not a boat. 
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12-20-2019, 03:03 PM
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gone traveling
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12-21-2019, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by NW-Bound
After the above collision, the Carnival ship that got the stern (rear) damage almost collided with the Royal Carribean ship from where the above video was taken.
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Before any collision, the thrusters were engaged to push the stern to starboard and spin the ship counter clockwise. That engagement and subsequent motion not only caused the original collision, but also put the ship dangerously close to the other docked ship. Then you see, in the video you posted, the rear thrusters are finally reversed which prevented a continued counter clockwise spin, and so preventing a second collision with the other docked ship.
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12-21-2019, 11:42 AM
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The, (nowadays pretty much defunct), tugboat operators must be laughing their heads off.
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