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2023-05-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Carnival Sunshine Cruise Ship Battered By Massive Waves, Leaving Multiple Decks Flooded

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-30 03:35|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Perhaps that is a good time to put on a life jacket yourself.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-30 06:11|| 2023-05-30 06:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Not sure vomit bags help when one is shitting one's pants.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-30 06:43|| 2023-05-30 06:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I never liked going fishing with more than one other guy in the boat. Open water with 4000 drunks, never happen.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-30 08:31|| 2023-05-30 08:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Do these people not know how to check the weather report?

Posted by ed in texas 2023-05-30 10:49|| 2023-05-30 10:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Modern cruise ships do look like top-heavy, floating balcony walls and I imagine all those windows and doors are less waterproof than an actual hull in a serious blow?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-05-30 15:00|| 2023-05-30 15:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Cruise Ship Battered By Massive Waves, Leaving Multiple Decks Flooded

And that was just from the pool! [cannonball]

Posted by Phavimp Uleasing6437 2023-05-30 15:25|| 2023-05-30 15:25|| Front Page Top

#7 #3 so sort of like being on the Wasp after pulling out of Fleet Week in NYC.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-05-30 15:25|| 2023-05-30 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 #3 Took a 5 day cruise back in February. Never again...

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2023-05-30 17:10|| 2023-05-30 17:10|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Hope you are doing well Billy.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-30 17:33|| 2023-05-30 17:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Never been on a cruise liner and most probably never will, mostly because I hear they nickel and dime you to death and don't let you bring your own drinks, but being cooped up out in the middle of the sea isn't my idea of fun.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-30 18:37|| 2023-05-30 18:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Flooding the lower decks? Do lower decks even have cabins and/or windows and balconies?

I suspect one of the lower deck openings for going on/off and resupply was battered open and let in a lot of water. I also suspect that the crew putting on life jackets were doing so because they had to go out on deck for some reason and you'd be a fool to do that without a life jacket during a storm, but the passengers who saw them were drunk/stupid.

Of course who knows, reporters are notoriously lazy.

Posted by ruprecht 2023-05-30 18:49|| 2023-05-30 18:49|| Front Page Top

#12 One of my many cruises went to Canada last fall during hurricane Fiona that hit eastern Canada. Changed the itinerary six times, missed two ports completely, but never had rough seas.

Carnival is considered third class transportation.

Posted by Bobby 2023-05-30 19:15|| 2023-05-30 19:15|| Front Page Top

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