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Someone needs to photoshop/caption this pic with "Ur not doing it right."

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Three die as cruise ship runs aground in Italy

PORTO SANTO STEFANO, Italy (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and rescuers were searching for other victims after an Italian cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground and keeled over in shallow waters.

Dozens were injured and around 50 people remained unaccounted for after the 114,500-tonne Costa Concordia hit a sandbar near the island of Giglio off the coast of Tuscany as passengers sat down to dinner on Friday evening.
Passengers spoke of panic and described some people leaping into the sea from the listing ship, which finally came to rest on its side, with decks partly submerged, a few hundred meters from the shore.

Photographs showed a large gash along its side but officials declined to speculate on what had caused the accident in calm seas close to the shore.
They said rescue efforts were continuing after a night-time operation involving helicopters, ships and lifeboats.

"We have about 40 men at work and we're expecting specialist diving teams to arrive to check all the interior spaces of the ship," said fire services spokesman Luca Cari.

"We don't rule out the possibility that more people will be lost," he said.
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Hopefully Rubycon has nothing to do with this little "mishap".
 
I don't know much about being the captain of a boat, but to me that looks like a pretty large ship to be that close to shore.
 
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They use ferry boats to transport people on and off cruise ships. See it all the time at Catalina Island.
 
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SlowSpyder said:
I don't know much about being the captain of a boat, but to me that looks like a pretty large ship to be that close to shore.
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The captain of the boat overshot the runway on landing because he forgot to put the flaps down.

Don't you people know anything about boats?

:hmm:
 
That really sucks. I know the drill ship i used to work on said they could launch life boats if the list was under 20 degrees and the heave was under 10 degrees.
 
They were trying to get to shallow water After hitting a submerged object.

Looks like they accomplished their mission. It looks pretty damn shallow.
 
pcgeek11 said:
They were trying to get to shallow water After hitting a submerged object.

Looks like they accomplished their mission. It looks pretty damn shallow.
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Thanks for the clarification. So it looks like this shipped is a total loss after only 5 1/2 years of operation. I wonder how the insurance company will pay them. ^_^ Or will it be repaired/cleaned up/salvaged?
 
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