My son the mountain man and climber calls this “type 2 fun”, more fun to recall than it was in the 1st place. He’s climbing in Red Rocks now and texted us an example of type 2 where they barely got off a dangerous descent before dark. I can’t decide whether I want to know or not!
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I’d love to see those waves.
From the shore, with a fire & cup of hot chocolate.
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beautiful plumage?
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They did, the sliding door was clearly closed…levity aside I guess they don’t have hatches on the upper decks of what is effectively a floating empire state building.
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Boats are for crazy people. Leaky death traps, constantly in need of maintenance. Expensive maintenance.
Now, a zeppelin with a lounge, I’d like to own one of those myself!
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I was trying to figure out just how huge that thing is, and found a measure I could understand – it could hold the crew of four USS Enterprises.
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Yeah, I get it! I don’t have much experience with storms at sea, but whenever I’m in a howling gale that’s raining sideways, yeah, I feel alive! Like the earth and nature are alive and showing it!
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I title this:
“Life on the High Seas”
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Yeah, the water everywhere looked really bad, but i‘ve been on far worse rocking and rolling on a car ferry crossing the English Channel. On one, half the cars got totalled after a few broke free from the restraining chains and just pinged all around the car deck.
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49 replies and no-one mentioning how much this looks like a real-life Bioshock yet? It’s the tackyness that sells it.
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ample warning for designers to take in some kind of vacuum/bilge info- structuring but guessing that’s outside of the economical bomb… but you might if you were going under the water mark
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Which exemplifies my favourite Latin quote:
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
– VirgilPerhaps, some day, even this will be pleasant to remember.
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Oh, what a great occasion to share my nightmares with you people !
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It looks to me that the designers have forgotten that this is a ship first, and a hotel second. Of course, look at any cruise ship built in the last forty years and you see the exact same thing. Sail the original Queen Mary or the SS United States through this storm, or a lot worse, and I bet you get hardly a drop of water in the passenger spaces.
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The leaking water is slightly alarming, but otherwise it looks pretty similar to crossing the English Channel on a windy day.
Personally I find rough weather fun, but I don’t really get seasick. Trying to stand up outside with the deck going up and down by a meter or so, and the wind howling a gale is great fun.
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I assure you that the people who keep booking one cruise vacation after another are in it for the shopping mall, buffets and other mediocre restaurants, and third-rate entertainment. And also the shore stops, where (at least in the Caribbean) the ports of call are virtually indistinguishable from one another (Diamonds International! Señor Frog’s! Outlet stores! Cheap cigs and booze! Shady-as-fuck casinos!) unless you make an effort to escape the usual three blocks of tourist traps jammed with cruise passengers. Hurry, you only have a half-day ashore!
And if you get any ideas about curling up in your tiny little cabin with a bottle of rum, well you can just forget about it. Bought some rum on shore? The cruise line will be happy to hang onto it for you until your final disembarking. While on the ship, you will buy all your beverages from the ship.
If you want that cozy little cabin, your own booze, and a ship that doesn’t look like a mall, you’ll have to drop some serious, serious money for a luxury cruise. Glitzy as it looks, the ship in the video is a mass-market floating resort.
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To be fair those are proper Transatlantic ocean liners meant to brave a gale with a bone in their teeth, once fulfilling the role airliners now have.
Cruise ships aren’t too far removed from a Ramada Inn on a barge, and seem best suited to puttering about in coastal waters.
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The last time I was on a cruise ship, we sailed through the edges of a big tropical storm in the same general area. It was actually kind of a fun ride, but what made it suck was the greatly reduced access to outside areas. There was damn well near nothing to do but watch the waves, which is fine for a while but got old after a day or two.
Of course, a cruise ship is generally a bad place to be if you like travelling to interesting places… that was the last cruise I’ll ever take, but not because of the storm, because I never want to spend my precious downtime that way again.
Much as I hate them, I think you underestimate the modern cruise ship. Mega-ships like the one in the video are fully capable of crossing the ocean, and they are equipped with high-tech stabilization systems – clearly the ship in the video was steered into something a bit too rough, but it’s not like the ocean is always like that.
You can even cross the ocean on one yourself, if so inclined. Just look for repositioning runs, since many of these ships are used in the Mediterranean in summer and the Caribbean in winter.
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What Norwegians call ruskevær, I’ve been in worse in smaller boats, but enough with the humblebrags. I’m disappointed, that this article wasn’t written by boingboings eminent correspondent mr. J.G. Ballard.
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I would guess that they are thinking that they had to get to NYC on the scheduled day or they’ll have complaints and lawsuits from 2 boatloads of passengers instead of just one. Being one day late is probably more of a logistical nightmare for a cruise line than fixing everything that breaks in a storm.
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