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What do you reckon, folks?
Infectious disease epidemic or zombie outbreak?
Capsized by orcas with a sense of esthetics?
Could be!
Can we get enough options to run a book?
An utterly surreal polluting expensive fusion of the final plot device of The Magic Christian and the Hospice planet from Futurama …with all you can eat shrimp?
Where is “Titanic re-enactment goes wrong”?
For when your yacht is in the shop.
Too much of a cliché, I thought…
But I can include it in the next revision if a couple of other suggestions come up. Preferrably obscure popcultural references.
(I’m not entirely happy with the first version anyway, some of the entries are a bit too similar.)
I had expected an I’m the Captain Now situation
That was basically just copy-catting the 1977 Landshut hijack.
Seriously, who wants a cruise ship cabin when you can charter a yacht with crew for the same price?
(I do not endorse the renting or superyachts, as I’m on the record of preferring to sink them. But these are small potatoes and given the choice between only two options, I wouldn’t choose the cruise ship)
Iceberg, as the ship’s carbon footprint happens to be the tipping point that melts the caps. The AI based navigation has it’s findings of “massive iceberg just ahead” dismissed as a hallucination.
OK, how about “War breaks out when High-Rise becomes reality”.
No Rogue Wave Strike?
As a safety feature, all doors are extra wide so they can accommodate two.
Small typo.
Unless you intend “dressed as pirates with priapism”, an unusual twist.
Not walking the plank. Nope.
everything with this 400 meter monstrosity is “a step in the wrong direcction”. again.