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[News]Norwegian Star cruise liner broken down and drifting near Melbourne (theage.com.au)

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[–]biscram[S] 23 points24 points  (3 children)

Stuck in the OCEAN on an OCEAN LINER with full amenities and in no danger. "It's a bloody nightmare" "The mood on board is dire"

[–]drunkill 14 points15 points  (1 child)

To be fair, Bass Strait is pretty notorious, it is quite shallow so waters are very fast in the area and Victoria does have a huge section of it named Shipwreck Coast...

But this should be fine.

[–]DidyouSay7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It will be fine. Tugs would be on scene by now.

[–]t3h 5 points6 points  (0 children)

She said all guests would get a full refund, as well as a 50 per cent future cruise credit.

I think that might have something to do with it...

[–]BonusCalms 9 points10 points  (8 children)

Tracker for the ship

Looks like maybe Tom Tough is on the way out to fetch it back.

[–]hexagrm 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Tracker for the ship

welp i know how my next few hours are going now.

That's pretty damn cool. Rather amazing how much sea traffic is out and about. I mean it's not surpirsing in the slightest but it's extremely interesting to see on a map.

[–]BonusCalms 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Yeah, isn't it.

Turns out Hastings has also been sent. I wish I could figure an ETA for them to pull it back to port, it's going to be after sunrise tomorrow morning you'd think?

[–]hexagrm 1 point2 points  (3 children)

iI's moving at 10 knots and has a fair way to go; it would be much slower on the way back too no doubt. tomorrow morning would be the earliest perhaps.

btw, holy shit... go look at china, the amount of marine traffic there is mind blowing. Hong Kong and Shanghai in particular.

[–]aftersilenceWest Side 2 points3 points  (1 child)

The Hong Kong container port has a throughput of 55,000 TEU (1 TEU is equivalent to 1 20ft container) per day, which is a mindblowing figure.

[–]Milbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The North Sea/English Channel is another cool place to look.

[–]Billy_Bunter 0 points1 point  (1 child)

'Not under command'

[–]BonusCalms 2 points3 points  (0 children)

'Underway Using Engine' as of 10:41. So that's a start. Both tugs present.

[–]licking-windows 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Time to get my mates 4m tinny and take advantage of those salvage laws!

[–]Oceanmyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was chatting to a couple of cruisers on Wednesday - they said their ship had been having engine trouble for a while, they'd already missed a couple of ports and would be staying in Melbourne for an extra day so the company could make repairs. I wonder if it was the same ship.