The Carnival cruise ship that broke down in the gulf and was towed to Mobile for repairs - broke loose during a storm and hit another ship being repaired in Mobile Bay.
I don’t even live there but have had the chance to know a few and even have a few beers with complete strangers and I promise you will have to fight just to pay for your own beer. Good folks
I moved to Mobile from a northern state and not all people down here talk like this. I will say they are good, fun people. They are much smarter than they sound. Very nice, wonderful people in Mobile, AL with a great sense of humor. Very happy I moved here.
I love the South! (I married an American from a Southern family.) I'd take the South over any place I've been --any day. The weather is perfect (the humidity doesn't bother me) and the people are polite. And considering that I worked at a med school I can assure y'all that Southerners are quite intelligent. At least they know that the Dixie-crats (Southern Dems) opposed abolition of slavery. That's something folks up North conveniently seem to forget. Anyway, hooray for the South!
We are from Tennessee and travel regularly. Last time we went to New York my cousin went with us and she was amazed that people didn’t hold the door open for you much less even say please and thank you after every sentence. Lol Even my 3 year old will say “no thanks”. A little politeness can go a long way.
The Triumph was the 1st cruise i ever went on amd my roommate wrecked us on a mo-ped in Mexico. We had to go to the ship dr and it took all our money lol.
To all those making fun of the way this guy talks know that it appears to be a Louisiana accent. Just because they speak like the swamp people doesn't mean they are stupid.
Holy crap... Look at that little tugboat try for his little life and soul to push with all his little might powdered in determination and coated with caramel Hope on a stick of can-do.💪🏋️🛥️
Yeh....this was horrible. I worked at BAE at the time (where the ship WAS docked) in Engineering and we lost one of our family that day as well as this happening. Its amazing that the precautions that we took and DO take on every repair vessel werent enough for the extreme winds that came through that day.
Je Mart, how many of these stories have we heard over the past few decades? Relatively few compared to the total number of cruise ships and captains. Can't say all, or even the majority of, cruise ship captains are bad just because of a very small handful.
It's about the weather/sea-state, the size of the vessel and degree of control required not simply the number of tugs. It takes intelligence and critical thinking and is a good example of a situation where sheer "might" does not always mean the triumph over a situation.
Well-secured lines to strong docks solve most of these problems before they ever start. And they're way cheaper to take the time to deal with correctly, even at a maintenance or refitting dock with no one on board. I'll bet there was no serious, calculated response plan for this kind of thing happening.
JoeRyanCivilWar You are sort of correct on that one. The new cruise ships are nothing like the ship you crossed on and are more like barges with hotels on them and use stabilizers and propulsion pods rather than shafts with rudders so in this case there is really no draft to counter the windage.
Oscar for best Narration 0:01 - Better get a few tugs on that bastard 0:46 - Look at the people on the damn boat 2:06 - You should have dropped that son'bitch a long time ago 2:51 - "Holey Moley"
***** But it is ok for Hollywood to produce movies derived on characters where accents are clearly associated to a particular region? Piss off with the PC crap, and by the way, thank you for your comment and acknowledging the assimilation of accent to region.
2 reason why thys would never happen to the Enterprise. 1. There ain't no wind in space. And 2. Kirk and Scotty would never allow that to happen to their beloved ship and bairns.
Damm I remember that day, We lost all power and watched the cruise ship crash into the Wheeler. RIP to the worker who lost his life 15 minutes before Ian filmed this.
This was in Mobile AL, I was there and watched it as it broke away from the WOODEN dock it was tied up to....the vessel's generators were being maintained and the vessel was getting power from ashore, when it broke away it yanked the 100,000 volt cables away and was dead in the water....one person (dock worker) lost his life when the wooden dock was torn to pieces by the cruiser....it was some sight to see and watch this gigantic cruiser just dead in the middle of the Mobile river and simply astonishing to watch two small tugs (really only one for the first 30minutes!!!) wrestle and guide this giant to another dock where it was tied off....aside the tragedy in which 1 person lost their life, the only damage was the paint on the two ships and a bit of bent metal.....well and the lost anchors and the woodem dock, but still, looking at the whole picture, this was miniscule few million $s of damage
LOL First thing I thought was: Poor guy having this accent. But it doesn't mean he's dumb. Just sounds oafish. But maybe he would say WE had a dumbo accent if he heard us.
Mika Lee Funny, I hear people talk about cruises, sailing, or buying a boat and I just think I've pissed more seawater than you'll sail through, and I do not get underway anymore, ever.
i agree, these are hard working men, who need respect. i would more put down the incompetence of the crew on the ship than the guys we heard on the vid. some people dont need to comment in comments, this person who did showed what an intellectual giant they are. peace
CARNIVAL SHIPS. Even without power, and with his engines off and damaged, continues collides with other ships and continues causing major problems. AMAZING!!!
"You should of dropped that shit long time ago"....this guy needs to commentate on many other things too, he's hilarious hahaha ...he could literally hype anything up haha
That would be one sector... the other is for stupid people to leave profane comments such as Oli Baillie... the is something about being called a "cunt" when my picture is next to my note... really stupid people...
been in something like that, Guam 2010 on board the USS Halsey DDG 97, refueling and we stayed moored there over night at the refueling pier. A current picked up from a storm and started parting lines. We started doubling them up but we're still parting them. A tug came a long side and with the aft capstan and the tug we were able to get back to the pier. (I was running the capstan) the tug kept pushing us against the pier all night long just so we wouldn't part any more lines.
Anchors will have virtually no effect when the chain is vertical as this is how one "breaks-out" an anchor. In the bad old days of sailing ships they would lash the anchor underneath a Jolly Boat (a large rowing boat) and the sailors would row the boat to where the captain wanted the anchor to be put. Usually one is looking for a five to one ratio of length of anchor chain to depth as most anchors only work when the pull is near to horizontal.
Actually it is the chain that does the real work of holding. Five times the depth's worth of chain for normal winds, seven times or more for high winds. These guys didn't have much hope given how few of the crew, if any, were on board at the time. Who knows what was offline for repairs; bow thrusters, capstans? They sure exceeded the rated loading for that shredded hawser dangling there.
Makes me wonder if an anchor or three (in conjunction with the anchors at the bow) dropped off the stern might have helped, assuming one could find a way for them not to foul up the screws...
(In tune to I Want To Break Free) She wants to break free, She wants to break free, She wants to break free from the dock it's unreal, She wants to break free, God knows, God knows she wants to break free....
Duty officer has some explaining to do as to why lines weren't tripled up and thrusters weren't in service. Bubbas doing the talking sound like the guys in deliverance ... "You got a pretty mouth, boy" ...
Dude you do not know anything about the situation to draw conclusions. For one thing the vessel was in-dock due to propulsion failure and had none. Triple dock lines does not assure control in this situation it's just that simple. You are either stupid or only have experience with a canoe as far as vessels are concerned.
I loved this video. It's so refreshing to hear a narration that doesn't sound like a barely intelligible group of thugs, or is laced with the vilest forms of profanity. And people who talked like this put a man,on the moon, by the way.
If your job is to cut and weld steel, when this happens all you can do is film and comment. Education level doesn't factor unless you think an engineering degree can will the ship back to it's mooring. The man is just filming something beyond his powers to rectify. He knows it; some commentators think they could rectify the wind in his place.
That was a freak weather event that day. Only a 1/4 of a mile upriver, a security guard drowned when the guard shack he was in blew into the river. The winds were equal to category 2 hurricane.
I think it could have been avoided if the tug boat had pushed the bow into the wind. The windload and the drift would have been much lower and the tug boat would have been able to keep the ship in the middle of the harbour away from other ships gaining time to start the ships engines or wait for a second tug boat.
Thomas Hubert hush and be quiet, you werent there. We had sustained 60mph winds, gusting over 80mph. By the time that 1st tug boat showed up the cruiser had a lot of momentum going from the wind pushing. That tug captain needs a statue the size of Statue of Liberty erected for him, the balls on this guy must be enormous for what he did!!! Also, the cruiser engines and gennies were going through maintenance so the vessel didnt have ANY power to start them up, they were getting power from the beach, and the power cables snapped off when the cruiser ripped itself from the dock. So yea....hush cause you dont know shit about what was going on that day
@@dacca007 Plus he would of had the tug engines at max revs and max pitch as well. you can only do so much, plus when the cruise ship had the 1 anchor down, he was dragging, he should of put more chain down as the chain helps to stop the drift. I do work afloat so got a good idea :)
