One cruise ship drifting waiting for test results as 4 others depart Port Everglades

[Dennis Donovan]

Last edited Sun Mar 8, 2020, 07:49 PM - Edit history (1)

The Regal Princess (the ship waiting for test results on two crewmembers) is circled in red.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-80.066/centery:26.052/zoom:12

The beat goes on.

[tblue37]

1. Why are cruise ships still setting sail at all? (Rhetorical question.) nt

[Sherman A1]

2. Green Folding Money.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[blueinredohio]

4. There's no way I would ho on a cruise anytime.

For just that reason. Too many people in too close quarters plus recirculation air equals too many germs.

[Ms. Toad]

3. I suppose it might be a nice romantic cruise for 2

on an empty ship . . . for more than a month.

But that is assuming that the other passengers woke up and decided not to hop on board.

So we'll probalby have more floating cities that become infected, then hang out off-shore because "it's not our fault" so we dont' have to let them dock

[Girard442]

5. Michael Dunn in Ship of Fools:

[walks up to the ship's railing]

My name is Karl Glocken, and this is a ship of fools. I'm a fool, and you'll meet more fools as we go along. This tub is packed with them...

[Yonnie3]

6. It's not adrift. It is underway using engine. n/t

[Dennis Donovan]

8. 2.2 kts? That's drifting with the engines running.

[Yonnie3]

9. It is underway, not adrift.

There is a minimum speed to maintain steering and the captain will maintain that in order not to be adrift. That speed will vary with conditions.

a·drift
/əˈdrift/

adjective: adrift

1.
(of a boat or its passengers) floating without being either moored or steered.

[Dennis Donovan]

12. Okay

[cwydro]

15. Nope.

You a ship captain too?

[Dennis Donovan]

16. .

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181240871

At 30 secs you'll see my boat, a 40' Silverton AC - here's the frozen frame (arrow's pointing to my flybridge):



I have my master's certificate, Sparky. You kinda need one for a boat that size.

[HarlanPepper]

7. These should have been shut down weeks ago

I’ve been on about 20 cruises, got on a plane and went to Paris the day after the 2015 attacks without much reservation, but there’s no way in hell I’d get on a cruise ship right now.

[Mariana]

10. My parents are scheduled to go on a cruise on the 21st.

As of this morning, they still plan to go if it doesn't get cancelled. They are 81 and 77. Crazy.

Not that they're going to escape the virus if they stay home. They live in a large retirement community and participate in loads of social activities, and they go out all the time. There are confirmed cases in a nearby county to them, and it's probably already being spread far and wide among their friends and neighbors.

[HarlanPepper]

13. Yeah, I wouldn't go if I were them.

But I also understand some people's desire to live their life. We all have to make our own calls. I have a trip scheduled for Hawaii next month. We'll be going unless we're under a 9/11 style shut down of air travel by then which is a definite possibility at this point. But we are in our 40s and otherwise healthy.

[spanone]

11. you'd have to be out of your mind to set sail on one of these petri dishes

[spinbaby]

14. They've been cleared to dock

Two crew members who had transferred from the other cruise ship were tested, but were negative.

[Dennis Donovan]

17. Great news!!

[Yonnie3]

18. They just entered Port Everglades according to tracking data. n/t