Two hours ago the Grand Princess left her holding pattern

[FightingIrish]

and started steaming toward the Golden Gate. It’s not clear what the destination is. Pilot Boat Drake is on station and may be rendezvousing with the liner. You can track the progress of the ships on sites like MarineTraffic or most ship finding apps.

[Poiuyt]

1. I thought you were talking about Ivanka

[Takket]

2. So did I!!!

[2naSalit]

4. I did too!

[jberryhill]

18. Well she has been holding, um, something

Link to tweet

[Liberal In Texas]

22. Holy moley...I have not seen that before.

Says a lot.

[Pachamama]

6. No - Ivanka is the Grand Czarina....

[at140]

3. Sounds right, I heard during news conference today that

the authorities are going to allow passengers to disembark from ship in port, and tested and may be quarantined as needed.

[Pachamama]

5. Where is this data coming from?

If this is true, I personally find it distressing as they do it under cover of darkness.

I want to know what they plan to do and where they will take them and quarantine and treat.

[FightingIrish]

7. The timing is suspicious

They’ve known for some time what the final destination was. Pence said it wouldn’t be a commercial port. I hope the media is on top of it.

[Pachamama]

8. Pence said it would go where people didn't go (or something to that effect)

Maybe its going over to Alameda Naval Station? Port of Oakland and going to a dock where they can meet and take them to an area or transport them away?

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Just follow a mega fleet of Buses.

Isn't there a Live Ship Camera or Cameras in that area?

[shanti]

10. Does Angel Island have accommodations?

Just thinking out loud...And thanks for the link! I'm watching it now. It looks to be headed across from the Embarcadero, next to the Bay Bridge.

[Brother Buzz]

14. The 1000-Man Barracks is a little tired these days

[shanti]

15. LOL

Guess not!

[Brother Buzz]

23. Back in the day....

The East Garrison was fenced off from the day visitors to Angel Island, but back in my misspent youth, we used to sail over and explore. It was a glorious junkyard chock full of rusty stuff to check out, and we had the place to ourselves. The barracks were mostly stripped, but there were neat faucets in the latrines that had cool Lucite handles. It's funny how you remember strange little things like that, and in a strange way, it's sad for me to see it all cleaned up, and in arrested decay.

[shanti]

11. How about the Presidio?

It's empty, right?

[FightingIrish]

12. Around 8:30 PST the ship accelerated from 12 to 18 knots and turned east.

It’s now turning away from San Francisco and heading southeast. Change of plans.

[eleny]

13. I've been following along on the map you posted about

That turn south surprised me when I just refreshed the map. I hope the passengers are being kept apprised. It must be so stressful for them to be experiencing these course changes.

[FightingIrish]

16. It appears that the turn south was just before they would have entered U.S territorial waters.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump was sending them to Mexico.

[Totally Tunsie]

17. Alcatraz?

[jberryhill]

19. Naw, save that for his administration

[Totally Tunsie]

21. So true. LOVE your avatar!!!

[Totally Tunsie]

20. Here's some additional info from ABC News:

https://abc7news.com/health/live-coronavirus-updates-princess-cruise-ship-moving-closer-to-ca-due-to-sick-passenger/5906450/

The Grand Princess cruise ship with 21 confirmed cases of coronavirus is moving closer to the coast of California. In video obtained by ABC7, the captain can be heard saying the ship will move 20 miles off the coast of San Francisco south the Farallon Islands due to a sick passenger. He goes on to say that the Coast Guard has been notified about this situation and there could be a possible airlift tonight.

[FightingIrish]

24. That's consistent with its maneuvers last night.

It did a similar maneuver this morning then slowed for a rendezvous with Coast Guard Vessel Tern. Tern is inbound to the Golden Gate at high speed. Grand Princess is returning to its holding pattern. Tern is now about eight miles from the Golden Gate Bridge. It is not indicating a destination.