We even have Steelers fans on the crippled Carnival ship

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Not to play hero or anything like that but when sewage starts flowing in my room then it is time for my instincts to take over and load up my family on one of the dingy's and start rowing for the shore. Grab as many snacks and drinks as we can. I'm certain once I got there that I would be apprehended immediately but oh well. Glad I never take cruises.

 

Yeah...not a big fan of water and dont really love the idea of being on it for days on a big boat. Glad everyone made it back safely!

 

Having been a yacht captain for many years, I wouldn't take a cruise simply because it would be a "busman's holiday" The other reason would be that I don't want to leave the dock on something that's not U.S. flagged. Not too confident in their repair log. Glad everyone got back safe.

 

Yeah I feel you. I've been on one 3 day cruise and I didn't like it. I don't like the idea of being stuck on a boat that long either. It went to the Bahamas and I found that to be a very dirty place and didn't even feel too safe there really. The ships are nice but to think that I had to be stuck on one would make me go crazy The Shining style. Well... maybe not THAT bad.

 

I was on a five-day cruise to the Bahamas when a hurricane came through the area. We couldn't port for the first three days and ended up doing circles off the coast of Cuba. It was horrible for the reasons you just explained. We were stuck on board, the sea was rocky, and even worse: because it was raining, we couldn't go up on deck. The ship's crew did its best to keep us entertained, but by day three, I thought I was going to lose my mind.

 

I've been on many cruises with just the wife and the whole family. Had a great time on every one of them and I'm sure we'll continue to take cruises. I feel bad for the folks who were on that ship but let's face it any vacation can turn in to a disaster no matter where it is or what you're doing. The boat COULD sink or the plane COULD crash but the reality is it very rarely ever happens. A couple of years ago we took a Carnival cruise out of LA with stops in Cabo and other places. Weather was perfect and all the places we stopped were great. Several weeks after being home that very same ship we were on is the one that went dead in the pacific and floated for days just like this most recent one. Like they say, timing is everything I guess. Oh and this is Steeler related because every cruise I've ever taken I wear my Steeler gear on deck and in the gym LOL!

 

That would probably be THE WORST thing that you could do.

Hopefully your family would have the sense to stay behind and let you go it alone.

 

On second thought:


What does this have to do with the Steelers?

 

Uhhh because our ship needs to be righted! Duh! Also there was a guy wearing a Steelers shirt in the picture. Get with the picture Biz! LOL!

 

I gaurantee I'd make it back to shore before anyone else. You have a 5000 ton boat sitting idle on clear seas with no weather to worry about. I take my wife and kids and in the middle of the night drop a dingy with food and water and about 4 oars plus anyone else that wants to join in meaning more rowing ability. Make certain it doesn't get overcrowded and head north for shore. Figure in 2 hours depending on current flow I am only making enough progress for any cnn cameras covering the fiasco feel the need to send in a helicopter at tax payer expense to pick us all up. There's virtually no way I wouldn't be found. Heck with todays 24/7/365 coverage we'd be all over the news, either being praised as brave and cheered on, or chastised for wasting tax money which happens every second of the day anyways. Probably be on Good Morning America before the others even smell land.

 

I can tell you've thought this through. LOL. What I MYSELF would do is land on an island, build a community, make a professor build me a coconut phone, call Wrongway Feldman to pick me up, get ready to leave the island, and right at the last second some crazy circumstance will trap me yet again to start the whole thing over. Or at least something like that.

 

I was in a Typhoon on the USS Tripoli. Waves were breaking over the bow. The Trip is an LPH. the deck is about 40 feet above the water. I was on the 0-2 level and cracking the hatch to watch the waves crash the deck. Course I have been on many ships during storms, being a Marine infantry guy

 

Have you ever been on a ship in the ocean? It makes you realize who insignificant you are. How would you know which direction is north? How would you know which way is land? Which way to row? What if you started rowing in the wrong direction? What if you started rowing east in the direction of Africa? You could be rowing for days and be making it worse by going even further out to sea. And the ocean is so unbelievably vast, finding you would literally be like finding a needle in a haystack. Chances are that you'd never be found in time, if at all. If you're lucky, they'd find your sunburned corpse so that your family could have a funeral, but it would probably be closed casket though. You'd be without cover and exposed to the elements; the heat, the rain, the reflecting sun off of the ocean. It would be misery and you body wouldn't be able to take it very long. It would be far worse than being on a ship with a few turds floating around.

 

My son is in the Navy and has spent alot of time on a carrier. On one of his trips out to sea.. he said they didn't see land, in any direction, for over 30 days.

 

Bobby - Here's my mind set. I HATE HUGE CROWDS OF PEOPLE especially in confined area's. Always have always will, so the chance that my lovely wife talks me into one of these vacations is about 1 in a million. But lets say I go anyways and this life experience comes about. Day 3, I would be completely exhausted of all my patience. I figure the second I cut loose a dingy, I will have at least 200 people reporting it to whomever they see fit. Facebook, news media, what have you. There is no way that I'm not going to be found . Like I said, I will either be in jail getting 3 squares and a cot for a day or two or trying to schedule David Letterman and the view in the same day.

 

Yes Bobby I felt EXACTLY that way! I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep so I decided to get up and walk outside to take a look around and there was nobody around and ALL I could see was water and I was like "dang man if I fell in there they'd never even know I was gone." The ocean is so dang big I also realized it was the first time I had ever been in a condition where I could ONLY see water. It's ironic to me that we're rarely in a condition to where we can only see water when you consider the earth is mostly water! LOL.