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normally when you're going on a cruise this is what the cruise lines want you
to think about when you're getting ready to take a cruise ship vacation idyllic
conditions wonderful wonderful weather and great views but I'll tell you this
can also happen not that this is a common occurrence but it can happen and
this year 2019 we have had five different incidents on cruise ships
running from accidental issues like a crane falling on a ship two ships
crashing into piers like the epic here and engine failures let's recap the five
epic fail so far for 2019 the first one was actually 500 people getting sick on
the oasis of the seas the ship was heading to Jamaica people started
feeling ill it got the foul mouth and by the time the ship docked here there were
over 120 cases of norovirus on board the six thousand passenger ship plus two
thousand crew the officials in Jamaica would not let anyone off the ship the
ship decided to go to Cozumel by the time the left port were heading halfway
to Cozumel another hundred people were ill the ship turned around and went
right back to the Florida by the time the ship came back into port there were
over 500 cases of norovirus what a mess that one was Norwegian escape had a
beautiful trip going coming down the eastern seaboard of the u.s. when she
got hit with a 115 mile an hour wind around 10:30 in the evening in the dead
of night of the wind hit the side of the ship and caused her to list at a
dramatic angle causing anything that wasn't buckled down the fall out fall
down or slide across the floor Furniture glasses dishes and people were sliding
along the floor of the ship as she was trying to right herself he took over 20
minutes for it to happen the ship did make her make it into what
Port Canaveral and the ship was fine but passengers were a bit shook the next
disaster to talk about Norwegian epic engine failure a total disaster of a
cruise she left Florida and within a day her
engines were down to only eight knots top speed she limped into San Juan
Puerto Rico after cancelling a couple of stops and st. Thomas and st. Martin and
in San Juan the ship crashed into the pier causing damage to her hull long
scrapes thankfully no water was was leaking on the ship the technicians they
ignored this problem they looked at it but this wasn't the issue they were
trying to get the engines back up and running they thought they had to fix the
next day should the ship left only to find it 12 hours later the engines
conked out again she limped all the way back to Florida and the cruise was a
complete write-off everyone got a refund and they were not happy with this crane
crashes into the Aces of the seasoned Freeport Bahamas the Oasis of the Seas
was supposed to go to the Freeport for a quick one week turnaround to get some of
her has a pods worked on when inside the dry dock the ship shifted and tilted
badly causing a crane to crash into and fall onto the ship itself
this is not how cruise ships are supposed to look when they were in
drydock here's a picture of the crane right across the back of the ship
thankfully no one was killed there were some injuries but no deaths it was a
miracle 50 million dollars later after the ship was moved to Cadiz Spain
she was repaired including her azipods and she's now servicing customers in the
Mediterranean she'll go in for a 160 million dollar drydock in November back
to Cadiz for all of her other work mostly cosmetics and a lot of new
features initially back to Florida and the big story of the year the Viking sky
off the coast of Norway two miles off the coast of Norway issues an SOS when
her engines conked out due to low oil pressure it turned out the ship was
helpless even fairies in the area stopped
operating that day because of how bad the weather was the people were
questioning why with the captain of a luxury cruise line six star luxury
cruise liner go out in weather like this and sure enough the ship could not
handle it and the engines conked out thankfully if they dropped anchor within
a mile of the shore and it kept the ship from hitting the rocks which are only
300 meters away she would have been torn apart there were at least 1,350 people
on board the ship 900 passengers 450 crew the captain ordered an evacuation
everyone had their life preservers on they met at their muster stations and
for 36 hours the Norwegian Coast Guard sent
helicopters to the heaving ship to get people off of her everything inside the
ship was pummeled tossed around it's like a salt shaker in here it was bad
damage was extensive to everything inside the ship by the time was said and
done 36 hours later about a third of all the people on board the ship had been
plucked off by the helicopters and finally the engines were brought back
online and they were able to get the ship back to port and no one died
thankfully there were 31 odd injuries unfortunately some serious but no
fatalities what a story that is our number one scary story of the year and
the imagery was just unbelievable there you go six months into 2019 five epic
fails more coming I guess but again it's a safe way to travel believe it or not
it really is a safe way to travel but every once in a while we get some of
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