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  1. NYCAP123, Dec 12, 2010
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  2. Pascal, Dec 13, 2010
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    that's not a ship, that's a floating building.
  3. NYCAP123, Dec 13, 2010
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    Luckily she is still a floating building albeit a bit trashed. This sure does seem to be happening a lot lately. Anybody have an opinion of whether it's because there are just so many cruise ships out there today that the odds are catching up or is it that the industry expansion is pushing companies to sail during the wrong times in certain locations?
  4. Marmot, Dec 13, 2010
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    It's not really "trashed," a bunch of unsecured fooferall went adrift as the ship took a (reported) whopping 15 degree roll. The rolling lasted 5 minutes according to one passenger's report.

    The ship was heading toward Alexandria when the port closed due to the extreme weather. I am willing to bet the rolling occurred during the turn away from Alex toward Malta.

    Bad weather happens. If enough ships are at sea long enough a few of them will experience nasty weather. If each of those ships contains almost 3000 people who have never been in any kind of bad weather at sea, odds are you will get a few bruises and broken bones, plus a load of horror stories for publication in the home town newspaper.
  5. jhall767, Dec 13, 2010
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    You are forgetting the smart phone factor. Anytime anything happens it now goes straight to the internet. It seems like half the cruise ships now have live web cams you can check. Not that many years ago these photo's would have been shared when people got back from their cruise or crew swapped stories at a bar.