Well done P & O

[emandvee44]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...is-Kevin-Doran-Ben-Johnson-New-Caledonia.html

No credit to the appallingly written article (DM of course!)

M.

 

[NotBirdseye]

Atrocious article -_-.

But excellent news nevertheless.

 

[Biggles Wader]

Well done the cruise ship but who was taking the photos? One even included the liferaft and the mobo---still afloat.

 

[Bajansailor]

I would agree absolutely re the atrocious quality of the article - but I guess that is to be expected of the Daily Mail.
I guess that when the propeller(s) caught the floating rope, one (or maybe both) 'P' brackets (I am assuming that they were 'P' rather than 'A' brackets) were torn loose, allowing a rapid ingress of water.
If there had been a watertight bulkhead between the aft cabin and the engine room then it is possible that the flooding might have been contained in the aft cabin.
(I am assuming that the brackets for the propellers are attached to the hull in way of the aft cabin bilges).

 

[photodog]

Well done the cruise ship but who was taking the photos? One even included the liferaft and the mobo---still afloat.

You would be surprised how many folks take their camera on holidays.

 

[Neeves]

Incredibly good PR and advertising for P&O - its been on every news channel and printed media a number of times (and as mentioned - some excellent camera shots).

Desparately bad luck to get the rope round both propellors.

Jonathan

 

[Seajet]

The boat looks quite recoverable, and if taking to the liferaft WTF leave the dinghy and orange floaty thing on deck in the pic, they might be jolly handy ?

Something wrong with this.

 

[zoidberg]

The boat looks quite recoverable, and if taking to the liferaft WTF leave the dinghy and orange floaty thing on deck in the pic, they might be jolly handy ?

Something wrong with this.

I'm wondering what the loss adjuster/surveyor might find.

 

[Stemar]

I'm wondering what the loss adjuster/surveyor might find.

Assuming the statement that the boat sank is correct, an awful lot of water on top.

Quite recoverable in the Solent, where a tow's minutes away, but another matter in the ocean in a mile of water.

 

[Seajet]

Who said anything about towing ?

I certainly don't spend all my time in the Solent, and as far as I know Zoidberg does very little or none unless on a passage that requires it.

Not everyone from Chichester harbour relies on Seastart or help when in trouble, some of us even register slightly above clueless and carry toolkits, including mentally stored ones.

That boat doesn't seem to be in great trouble to me - and people who've just lost their ' pride and joy ' don't usually leave handy survival stuff onboard then sit taking grinning selfies in the raft.

 

[Biggles Wader]

You would be surprised how many folks take their camera on holidays.

My point was that the boat apparently hadn't sunk when help arrived, presumably the cruise ship. So the story about grabbing survival gear and wondering what was going to happen in the cramped liferaft was all rubbish.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I think the photos of the boat were taken by the survivors after they had evacuated to the liferaft. By the time the P&O ship arrived, it had sunk. Conditions look relatively benign, so they probably had a fairly trouble free evacuation, and weren't in panic mode as might be the case in other circumstances. The boat is obviously very deep in the water in some of the photos, and without power, the boat was definitely going to sink pretty soon.