Tilting
“What the hell!”
Hans and I were both sliding, feet first, off our bed. At the same time all loose items on the nightables tumbled to the floor. Then the ship righted itself and everything went back to normal.
This happened around 7:00 a.m. yesterday morning and later that day I spoke with a gentleman who was at the breakfast buffet when the ship tilted. He happened to be standing in front of a tray of fried eggs.
“I managed to grab the tray so it wouldn’t crash to the ground, but all the eggs slid off and onto my feet,” he told me with a laugh. “And all the other food ended up on the floor too.”
The pools also sloshed over and apparently there was a foot of water to be mopped up on one side of the ship wherever there were pools.
The captain didn’t make his usual announcement when things go awry so we were left wondering what happened until later that evening. It was the Captain’s Farewell party with free champagne in the central piazza area and he took that opportunity to update us. He was very pissed off.
“You’re probably wondering what happened this morning. The Argentine Pilot, who is required to guide us through the channel, forgot about the 250 metres of ship behind the bridge and only thought about the 50 metres in front. He made a sharp turn. You can’t do that with a ship this size. He must have thought he was piloting a tugboat. Luckily, the Officer on the Bridge was able to correct the mistake.”
Well then. There was more and he couched the rest of his speech more carefully, saying things like “political correctness prevents me from expressing how I feel,” but it was quite clear how he felt. Between the 5 hour delay in Buenos Aires (3 in port and 2 at anchor further out in Rio de la Plata) plus the unnecessary work caused by the incompetent pilot, I’m thinking our Captain will not have much good to say about the Argentinean maritime authorities.
Hans and I were both sliding, feet first, off our bed. At the same time all loose items on the nightables tumbled to the floor. Then the ship righted itself and everything went back to normal.
This happened around 7:00 a.m. yesterday morning and later that day I spoke with a gentleman who was at the breakfast buffet when the ship tilted. He happened to be standing in front of a tray of fried eggs.
“I managed to grab the tray so it wouldn’t crash to the ground, but all the eggs slid off and onto my feet,” he told me with a laugh. “And all the other food ended up on the floor too.”
The pools also sloshed over and apparently there was a foot of water to be mopped up on one side of the ship wherever there were pools.
The captain didn’t make his usual announcement when things go awry so we were left wondering what happened until later that evening. It was the Captain’s Farewell party with free champagne in the central piazza area and he took that opportunity to update us. He was very pissed off.
“You’re probably wondering what happened this morning. The Argentine Pilot, who is required to guide us through the channel, forgot about the 250 metres of ship behind the bridge and only thought about the 50 metres in front. He made a sharp turn. You can’t do that with a ship this size. He must have thought he was piloting a tugboat. Luckily, the Officer on the Bridge was able to correct the mistake.”
Well then. There was more and he couched the rest of his speech more carefully, saying things like “political correctness prevents me from expressing how I feel,” but it was quite clear how he felt. Between the 5 hour delay in Buenos Aires (3 in port and 2 at anchor further out in Rio de la Plata) plus the unnecessary work caused by the incompetent pilot, I’m thinking our Captain will not have much good to say about the Argentinean maritime authorities.
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