Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money

Post by okasaki » Sun, Sep 08, 2024, 2:26 PM UTC

d_burfoot wrote: post #107

The cruise industry is very fascinating to me. I think in the medium term we could see significant populations of people living long-term on cruise ships; it seems like the economic model is long-run more efficient (assuming the shipbuilding industry is very good at building these structures). You avoid the property tax, zoning, and regulatory burdens that go with living on land. It's likely safer because you're not…

Post by rswail » Sun, Sep 08, 2024, 2:27 PM UTC

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #93

GJim wrote: post #83

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> "raw dog" (in gen z parlance) I had to google that...... I'm afraid 'raw dogging' means something very different in Blighty!

Means the same "very different" something here in the US too... Maybe doing it in a cruise ship adds to the excitement ?

Post by jitl » Sun, Sep 08, 2024, 2:31 PM UTC

djhworld wrote: post #20

I watched the videos embedded in the article, annoyingly they don't show the cutting process just the splitting part but still. One thing I always appreciate about watching these sort ofs things is how much work and people goes into it, like the people repainting the hull and sides of the ship, looks like real hard but honest work and probably comes with a great sense of satisfaction to boot seeing the results of you…

Post by marginalia_nu » Sun, Sep 08, 2024, 2:32 PM UTC

rhaps0dy wrote: post #67

ajb wrote: post #41

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Very informative, thanks. "none having to do with the ship sinking Titanic-style." It's rare, but not nonexistent. The Costa Concordia springs to mind. Schettino ended up with all the blame, but it did seem to be that there was some degree of institutional incompetence as well. But not with the construction AFAIK

The Costa Concordia ship was basically beached and turned. It did not sink, rather it collided with some rocks near the coast. This is very different from "sinking Titanic-style". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster EDIT: oh hm, maybe you're right; like the Titanic it collided with something and water began to pour in, unlike the Titanic it was close to shore so the whole ship did not sink.

Post by semanticist » Sun, Sep 08, 2024, 2:33 PM UTC

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #89

pfdietz wrote: post #33

This reminds me of the case a British destroyer from WW1. This ship started as two Tribal class destroyers, HMS Nubian and HMS Zulu. In 1916, the first lost its bow to a torpedo (and then running aground); the second lost its stern to a mine. The admiralty decided to salvage the remains by joining them together into a new ship, dubbed HMS Zubian. https://www.twz.com/royal-navy-once-created-a-franken-ship-f...

I used to have a car like that - relative in car business specialized in buying late model cars that had one end (front or back) in good shape, and other end wrecked, and would use the two good halves to make a new car. He used a jig to get the alignment precise, and claimed it was as good as factory. The car seemed fine - there was no way to tell.