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Cruise Liner Breaks Mooring, Passenger Falls From Gangway.

submitted by blankfist

1 decade 5 years 2 months ago

When a mooring line breaks, it has enough force behind it to rip a human in half!

From LiveLeak: "High winds have ripped a cruise ship from its dock, breaking the vessel's gangway as passengers were disembarking and tipping an elderly man into the sea.

The MSC Fantasia's mooring ropes snapped away from the quay

The Italian-owned MSC Fantasia drifted away from the port wall in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in gusts of up to 110km per hour.

The boat then moved far enough away More.. from the quay to cause the gangway to collapse, around 15m above the sea.

One passenger fell into the water and had to be rescued by four members of the ship's crew.

The man, an 80-year-old Egyptian, is believed to have his head on the side of the ship and was in a serious condition in hospital, according to thinkspain.com.

The crew members were also taken to hospital and have now been discharged.

Palma's local port authority closed the port to traffic as a safety measure.

The 333-metre MSC Fantasia can accommodate 4,000 passengers and 1,325 crew members.

It is advertised by its owners MSC Italian Cruises as "the world's most beautiful cruise ship".

All on-board entertainment was cancelled for the night as result of the incident on Thursday"

6 Comments

kronosposeidon

*brief *wheels

This video has been flagged as being less than 1 minute in length - declared brief by kronosposeidon.

Adding video to channels (Travel) - requested by kronosposeidon.

Why cancel onboard entertainment for the evening? I don't think it would've been considered disrespectful to the injured man. As a paying customer on the ship, I'd probably have been pissed.

>> ^Xax:
Why cancel onboard entertainment for the evening? I don't think it would've been considered disrespectful to the injured man. As a paying customer on the ship, I'd probably have been pissed.

Well, if the entertainers or their equipment were on the other side of that gangway...

Besides, would you want to perform on a ship that "is believed to have his head on the side of the ship"? Sounds spooky and a bit gruesome for me.

ant

https://www.liveleak.com/e/444_1236360150 seems to be *dead.

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by ant.

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