Comments on: Cruise Ship Explorer Antarctic Abandonment – Update

By: Cruise Ship Iceburg - Dogpile web Search

Cruise Ship Iceburg - Dogpile web Search — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:07:51 +0000

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By: Episode #1 (December 7, 2007) « Messing About In Ships

Episode #1 (December 7, 2007) « Messing About In Ships — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:58:25 +0000

[...] Explorer sinking in Antarctica (gCaptain and [...]

By: Episode #1 (December 7, 2007) « Messing About In Ships

Episode #1 (December 7, 2007) « Messing About In Ships — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:27:00 +0000

[...] Explorer sinking in Antarctica (gCaptain and [...]

By: JSM

JSM — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:26:17 +0000

Swedish Finnish Ice Class rating of 1D: “for ships intended to navigate in light first-year ice conditions”

Ice Classes:
http://www.sjofartsverket.se/templates/SFVXPage____5548.aspx

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:12:53 +0000

I believe that ship was originally designed as a russian research vsl.

By: Capt. Mike

Capt. Mike — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:57:21 +0000

Those are only US stats and we all know the worst ships avoid the US. Try parismou.org

By: JSM

JSM — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:54:10 +0000

Laura, I retired in 2002 but RINA had a bad reputation most of my career. They got a portion of blame for the ERIKA tragedy in 2000 and made promises to improve but were only moderately successful by the time I left. The CG publishes statistics:
http://homeport.uscg.mil/mycg/portal/ep/contentView.do?contentTypeId=2&channelId=-18371&contentId=21920&programId=21428&programPage=%2Fep%2Fprogram%2Feditorial.jsp&pageTypeId=13489&BV_SessionID=@@@@0776069698.1196254198@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfaddmhfjfeefcfjgcfgfdffhdghl.0

By: John

John — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:41:09 +0000

Good question!

“Do either really matter if you hit an iceberg?” yes, depending on how you hit the iceburg. If you scrape down the side at low speed the double hull will help but I don’t know enough about the Class rating to give you a better answer.

Any one else know?

By: John

John — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:41:00 +0000

Good question!

Any one else know?

By: JSM

JSM — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:26:17 +0000

Swedish Finnish Ice Class rating of 1D: "for ships intended to navigate in light first-year ice conditions"

Ice Classes:
http://www.sjofartsverket.se/templates/SFVXPage...