World’s largest cruise ships meet
Just two days after Allure of the Seas completed its delivery voyage from STX Europe, the giant ship met up with its equally spectacular sister, Oasis of the Seas. This Royal Caribbean
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Carnival Splendor limps into San Diego
Things went wrong after an early morning engine room fire turned an “at sea” day into a nightmare of failed air conditioning, non-working toilets. And hours of waiting on line for a less-than-gourmet buffet of Spam and Pop Tarts dropped from a Navy helicopter.
Carnival’s Senior Cruise Director John Heald who was on the Carnival Splendor, blogged from the ship:
“There will be those who will say this has been ‘the cruise from hell.’ However, when you see the local news reporter with the huge hair talking to Mr. Angry remember that there are many many many many more who will tell you what they have been telling me and the crew and that is that Carnival as a company have done everything they can and continue to do so to help them through this difficult situation.
“One thing is for certain though … I doubt anyone onboard will ever ever want to eat a sandwich ever again.”
Still unanswered is the question of what caused the fire that broke out in the ship’s aft engine room at 6.A.M. Monday. The CoastGuard says that a preliminary investigation has been started and that the fire “was extinguished by onboard ship responders using installed systems. As a result, the ship’s generator lost power, disabling the vessel.”
Least likely cause? The one put forward by various blogosphere nuts who claim to have seen internal Russian security reports that the cruise ship was disabled by an EMP missile fired from a Chinese submarine.
November 12,2010
Dubai Drydocks launches jack-up
It is the second of two Service Jack units that the yard is building for Lysaker, Norway, headquartered Master Marine AS.
On completion next year, the vessel will commence a contract to install 88 wind turbines at the U.K.’s Shearingham Shoal field for Scira, a joint Statoil/Statkraft venture. The first vessel, Haven, was delivered from the Graha shipyard in June. It is now in southern Norway completing preparations for a three-year assignment as an accommodation unit at the Ekofisk field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
Designed by Global Maritime, and classified by ABS, Nora is DP2 equipped and can jack-up in 80 m water depth. It has an open deck area of 2,500 sq. m and has accommodations for up to 260 people. It will be equipped with two pedestal cranes, each of 750 t capacity.
The vessel has a hull length of 110 m and breadth of 50 m It has four 130 m long legs and the spud can area of each leg is 180 sq.m.
November 6, 2010
Dubai Drydocks launches jack-up
It is the second of two Service Jack units that the yard is building for Lysaker, Norway, headquartered Master Marine AS.
On completion next year, the vessel will commence a contract to install 88 wind turbines at the U.K.’s Shearingham Shoal field for Scira, a joint Statoil/Statkraft venture. The first vessel, Haven, was delivered from the Graha shipyard in June. It is now in southern Norway completing preparations for a three-year assignment as an accommodation unit at the Ekofisk field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
Designed by Global Maritime, and classified by ABS, Nora is DP2 equipped and can jack-up in 80 m water depth. It has an open deck area of 2,500 sq. m and has accommodations for up to 260 people. It will be equipped with two pedestal cranes, each of 750 t capacity.
The vessel has a hull length of 110 m and breadth of 50 m It has four 130 m long legs and the spud can area of each leg is 180 sq.m.
November 6, 2010
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One of the largest circulation and most popular B to B marine magazines in the world, MARINE LOG carries on a tradition of marine industry journalism that extends back more than 130
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One of the largest circulation and most popular B to B marine magazines in the world, MARINE LOG carries on a tradition of marine industry journalism that extends back more than 130