that captain is going to jail.
as an actual mariner, I can tell you that what is happening to that ship is totally illegal, and that the consequences for the captain and the rest of the officers on board are pretty damn bad.
sucks to be them.
(, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 3:04, Reply)
Neptune
you're under arrest.
that footage is of the valentina in 2005.
As far as i can determine no charges were laid. Either against the crew or the weather (which wasn't even classed as a cyclone).
here's the same ship getting it's windows smashed as a freak wave hits it head on.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fQ1eWv36o
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KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 4:55,
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The internets told me its the Valencia in cyclone Valentina in the Med
I read some bloke who was supposedly on it saying that they lost an engine which is why the coast guard was there.
Best comments on the site I found the info on below :
JJsaysJJsays
Seen waves come over the flight deck of the USS Enterprise.
nottidreddnottidredd
what did Picard do?
Arf!!!
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 5:55,
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Erm
I'm fairly sure the window breaking clip isn't related.
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The Coast Of Yemen, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 9:34,
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You're going to jail!
As an actual person who knows fuck all about anything, I can tell you that what is happening in your reply is totally illegal, and that the consequences of reading your post and the rest of your drivel is severe belming!
BEEEEEEEEELM!
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 8:50,
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Sorry,
I feel the need to respond to you again.
What the fuck are you on about? Can you please explain how getting caught in a massive storm is illegal? I only ask this because last year I was walking down the road and a storm started. I don't want to break the law.
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 10:46,
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I'm going to hazard a guess here.
In the video, the ship is side-on to the wind and the waves, meaning its more at risk of capsizing than if it was facing head-on. I'm guessing this kind of thing is illegal on large vessels or passenger ships due to the increased risk of everyone dying.
Remember the victims of the last major capsizing. They never did recover all the bodies from the Poseidon.
(, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 10:52, Reply)
Actually I know a great deal about ships in storms.
Two things are illegal.
There is such thing as stability. They are calculations that are required to be made to stop a ship rolling like that, and laws that require those calculations to meet a certain standard. The ship there doesn't meet the required standards. The ship also has stabilisers under the water line, if the ship met the standards, the stabilisers would stop the ship.
The have got too much ballast water, a very low GM and an extremely sharp GZ curve.
Also, there are weather routeing requirements that mean that passenger ships of a certain size, shape, tonnage etc. aren't actually allowed to be in storms like that. They don't come out of nowhere, and it's not very hard to avoid them.
There is nothing illegal about walking down a road, especially if a storm started, but you don't have to worry about laws and rules that the UN, the IMO, the insurance companies, and the charterers set. You also don't have to worry about the passengers suing you because their grandmother is spread across a bulkhead.
So you can sleep easy at night.
(, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 11:51, Reply)
are all mariners this twatty?
Edit: Sorry, you're probably not.
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MrGomez and David Bellamy's big pubey beard, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 12:41,
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It looks fecking scary that's for sure, I wonder if the cruisers get any cash back in such circumstances
and shurely it shouldn't be possible for it to lean THAT much no matter what the weather, so me finks our mariner friend here may have a good point or 2...
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..wil, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 13:31,
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