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Originally Posted by crockett
I saw this eariler but this quote is crazy...
"The ship ran into some ice. It was submerged ice and the result was a hole about the size of a fist in the side of the hull so it began taking on water ... but quite slowly," said Susan Hayes of G.A.P. Adventures of Toronto, which owns the stricken MS Explorer."
How the fuck does a hole the size of a fist sink a boat that big? I thought all boats that big had to have water tight sections that could be sealed off.
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If it's a ship that small and run by a small private company, it's a fucking TUB.
Usually they are retrofitted freight liners or OLD passenger ships from the days when sea travel was still transportation.
Most boats that operate in Arctic waters have reinforced hulls and chambered bulkheads to keep something like this from happening. Guess the canuck hippies didn't feel like putting up the cash.