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[HungLikeJesus]

That's the first picture I've seen from that perspective. It hardly seems like you'd need a lifeboat with the land so close.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

That's the first picture I've seen from that perspective. It hardly seems like you'd need a lifeboat with the land so close.

The perspective makes it look a bit closer closer than it is, it's a LARGE cruise ship (approx 4000 passengers and crew from what I recall). But that is the main reason that there was less than 1% fatality.

The Captain didn't crash on these rocks, he had already holed the boat and was trying to bring it into harbour. Not that I'm writing in his defence, because he holed the ship on other rocks after all.

I can swim approx 25 metres. In a pool.
I would struggle to swim in the sea. Close to rocks and a huge sinking vessel, currents would be unpredictable. In a shipwreck, I'm Shelley Winters Swimming distance depends on the swimmer.

I really feel for the families of the two old men found in their cabins with their life jackets on. Imagine their last minutes - cold and dark and knowing what would surely come...

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Sundae

I can swim approx 25 metres. In a pool.
I would struggle to swim in the sea. Close to rocks and a huge sinking vessel, currents would be unpredictable. In a shipwreck, I'm Shelley Winters Swimming distance depends on the swimmer.
...

Trivia: Shelley Winters learned to swim from Olympic champion Johnny Weissmuller.

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

Trivia: Shelley Winters learned to swim from Olympic champion Johnny Weissmuller.

If Poseidon Adventure is how you remember Shelley Winters, it's easy to forget she once looked like this:

[ZenGum]

I was about to post that in the Mildly Amusing thread.

First of all this guy appears to have really screwed up the navigation in some of the best charted waters in the world in a ship with all the modern wizz-bang gizmos.

Then - maybe this is a second-language issue - he mentioned "a rock collided with our ship". ORLY? How fast was the rock going?

Then he went from "we were the last to leave" to "I WAS co-ordinating - from the lifeboat".

Yesterday, the ship had lurched violently and tipped them into the sea.

Now he "tripped and fell ... right into a lifeboat"

You, captain, are NO CAPTAIN.

[monster]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

I was about to post that in the Mildly Amusing thread.

First of all this guy appears to have really screwed up the navigation in some of the best charted waters in the world in a ship with all the modern wizz-bang gizmos.

Then - maybe this is a second-language issue - he mentioned "a rock collided with our ship". ORLY? How fast was the rock going?

Then he went from "we were the last to leave" to "I WAS co-ordinating - from the lifeboat".

Yesterday, the ship had lurched violently and tipped them into the sea.

Now he "tripped and fell ... right into a lifeboat"

You, captain, are NO CAPTAIN.

And now he ordered dinner for his fancy ladye an hour after the crash

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/world/...ook/index.html


The deaths aren't funny, but this captain sure is. How in the heck did they hire him? Where did they find him?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by monster

Where did they find him?

It's machismo. Not uncommon in those parts.

Hey, I'm a big important man. I'm going to ignore those pesky rules for wimps and bring my ship in close to the shore so I can impress my buds.

So you say we scraped bottom a little bit? It's just a little flesh wound. Get me my dinner and drinks. Can't you see I have a woman here?

My only wonder is when he went from full blown machismo mode to realizing the shit had hit the fan and he transitioned into whimpering baby mode.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by monster

Where did they find him?

His godfather did a favor for the ship's owner.

Originally Posted by glatt

My only wonder is when he went from full blown machismo mode to realizing the shit had hit the fan and he transitioned into whimpering baby mode.

That's MACHO whimpering baby mode.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by glatt

My only wonder is when he went from full blown machismo mode to realizing the shit had hit the fan and he transitioned into whimpering baby mode.

More or less at the same time he soiled his pants and started crying "Mommy!"

[classicman]

Originally Posted by monster

And now he ordered dinner for his fancy lady an hour after the crash

Did he order a float for dessert?

[HungLikeJesus]

I heard he's called Chicken of the Sea.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

I heard he's called Chicken of the Sea.

FTW

[infinite monkey]

Has anyone heard about these 12 HS girls exhibiting tourette-like symptoms? They're calling it conversion disorder (mass hysteria) but I don't really buy it. Of courses, I'm not a doctor IRL or on TV.

What do you think?

Before last October, 17-year-old Thera Sanchez was a healthy cheerleader at LeRoy Junior-Senior High School in New York. But when she woke up from a nap on Oct. 7, she was beset by uncontrollable Tourette-like tics, that she continues to have today.

MSNBC reported that Sanchez is not alone -- 12 girls at the high school experienced an onset of these same symptoms, which include outbursts, shaking and tics.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1210681.html

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Has anyone heard about these 12 HS girls exhibiting tourette-like symptoms? They're calling it conversion disorder (mass hysteria) but I don't really buy it. Of courses, I'm not a doctor IRL or on TV.

What do you think?

Is this happening in Salem, Mass?

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Is this happening in Salem, Mass?

No, it's happening on Uranus.