Oasis incident at Freeport Shipyard

[twangster]

12 minutes ago, molole said:

Which ones are the high speed legs in eastern Caribbean?

 

 

If I recall correctly, it's St Kitts.  When Allure had the dinged propellor issue last year they removed St Kitts due to speed restrictions.  Too many vibrations at high speed.  

[proggieus]

Reports are that 1200 crew were transferred back to Florida on a Grand Bahamas ship

 

https://www.wpbf.com/article/local-cruise-ships-help-crew-members-on-ship-damaged-by-crane/27019962

 

that don’t sound good.....

 

edit

 

actually i misread that. 

 

They were fed and shetered on the ship. 

 

Article Says the oasis crew would return to Florida today however i doubt the oasis crew would be returning to Palm Beach FL.  

Edited April 2, 2019 by proggieus

[ezelaya]

14 minutes ago, HBE4 said:

 

And in under 2 hours.  

 

They must be reeeeaaallllllyyy long posts and they can type really fast. 😃

 

EDIT: Sorry EZELAYA, I made a joke your expense before  I saw it was tounge-in-cheek. 

 

That'll teach me to read all before being a wise-a**

I am always a wise ass. haha. I am not bothered by jokes or being called out on a forum. It is to be expected! 

[ezelaya]

They must know something we all don't. 

 

"The Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas was dry-docked in the Bahamas when the crane crashed on top of the ship, causing it to flip on its side and take on water"

 

I would assume that RCCL wouldn't want to keep the crew on the boat as they fix the mess anyways. Makes sense to bring them back to Florida until repairs are completed.  

[Clarea]

19 minutes ago, peteukmcr said:

Host Clarea, for those of us across the pond, do you know which time zone the 5pm announcement will be conducted in? If not the east coast it'll be extremely late for us here in the UK and even later for my European friends.

 

I'm thinking US Eastern Daylight is now GMT - 4.  So 9pm for you.

[twangster]

4 minutes ago, proggieus said:

Reports are that 1200 crew were transferred back to Florida on a Grand Bahamas ship

 

https://www.wpbf.com/article/local-cruise-ships-help-crew-members-on-ship-damaged-by-crane/27019962

 

that don’t sound good.....

 

Good to see a competitor of sorts stepping up.  

 

Few hotels in Freeport now capable of housing 1,200+ on demand.  Many hotels were damaged by Hurricane Matthew in 2016.  

[Lionesss]

I wonder where they will house the crew until they return to the ship?

 

 

[AshleyDillo]

3 hours ago, twangster said:

 

Some people have been known to book a sail date anticipating it will cancel to get the FCC from it.  

 

 

Part of my thought in booking the Oasis Thanksgiving sailing (first one after the schedule AMP drydock).  I'm fortunate that I drive to the ports, so a change in plans will have little effect on me.  No flights to change and I won't book a non-refundable hotel or car rental.  I know others that throw down deposits on rumored full ship charters to get the OBC when it pans out and gets canceled.

 

It's just a tough situation for those who have to deal with non-refundable travel plans.  They're at the mercy of what Royal offers and then has available to salvage their vacation.

[dagalewis]

We have booked the Transatlantic on Oasis on April 21 to Barcelona.  We have a flight to Florida booked, a room in Cape Canaveral booked for a week,  a room in Barcelona booked for a week, a flight from Barcelona to England booked, another Royal Carribean cruise booked around Europe, and many other plans for our month and a half trip.  Everything has been carefully planned and booked for this trip.  Getting a little (or a lot) nervous.  

They say that there will be a news conference today at 5 on the status of the ship.  Where do we view this? We may have to make some last minute changes.  Not sure how we will handle this if our cruise is cancelled.  We have also carefully planned our trip budget, and don't want to spend more than we planned.  BIG OUCH!!!

[Pratique]

19 minutes ago, proggieus said:

Article Says the oasis crew would return to Florida today however i doubt the oasis crew would be returning to Palm Beach FL.  

I also doubt they are going anywhere. Besides Tuesday morning has come and gone and Grand Classica is still at Freeport.

[John&LaLa]

1 hour ago, reallyitsmema said:

 

Maybe old poster by new name?  Troy, is that you?

 

Troy in time out

[reallyitsmema]

1 minute ago, John&LaLa said:

 

Troy in time out

 

Not surprising. He might have at least answered my question about this supposed news conference though (keeping on topic 🙂 ).

[princesslondon]

Sorry if i missed it, but did anyone say where we can watch the news conference?

[mousefan73]

Twitter someone posted that they know someone on Allure  and it has been announced that The next two sailings are canceled this weekend and the next. 7/14th. Of course I don’t believe anything 100% I read on Twitter and I don’t want to upset those here scheduled on those.  I guess we are  all speculating right now anyways. 

[twangster]

3 minutes ago, dagalewis said:

We have booked the Transatlantic on Oasis on April 21 to Barcelona.  We have a flight to Florida booked, a room in Cape Canaveral booked for a week,  a room in Barcelona booked for a week ...

 

Ditto.  In my case my return air from BCN is the roundtrip portion of the ticket I used to get to Symphony in October, but I still have a flight to FL on 4/20, hotel, shuttle booked, etc.  Because my BCN flight home is the return portion of a roundtrip ticket I have a lot of restrictions for using it for something else.   I may just lose that ~$600, if it comes to that.

 

All we can do is wait patiently.  Learning our fate at 5pm or a week from now doesn't really change anything.  

[chengkp75]

21 minutes ago, Lionesss said:

I wonder where they will house the crew until they return to the ship?

 

 

 

7 minutes ago, Pratique said:

I also doubt they are going anywhere. Besides Tuesday morning has come and gone and Grand Classica is still at Freeport.

RCI would have a whole bag load of problems housing a couple of thousand crew in the US.  They only have crew visas, so they are only allowed to join or leave a ship, and have to be escorted by bonded agent to the airport direct from the ship.  Not even sure they would be granted entry as their visa is for a ship that is not in the US at the moment.

[reallyitsmema]

 

[peteukmcr]

32 minutes ago, Bobal said:

 

Pete, I've worked out it will be 10pm

So had I if it was eastern time zone.

[Rogerandsue]

8 minutes ago, dagalewis said:

We have booked the Transatlantic on Oasis on April 21 to Barcelona.  We have a flight to Florida booked, a room in Cape Canaveral booked for a week,  a room in Barcelona booked for a week, a flight from Barcelona to England booked, another Royal Carribean cruise booked around Europe, and many other plans for our month and a half trip.  Everything has been carefully planned and booked for this trip.  Getting a little (or a lot) nervous.  

They say that there will be a news conference today at 5 on the status of the ship.  Where do we view this? We may have to make some last minute changes.  Not sure how we will handle this if our cruise is cancelled.  We have also carefully planned our trip budget, and don't want to spend more than we planned.  BIG OUCH!!!

We are in a similar position,  flights from UK to Florida booked, 2 nights at the Marriott, Transatlantic, 2 nights Barcelona then get on the Explorer to get back to UK. 30th wedding anniversary treat, not looking so much of a treat now.

[orville99]

1 hour ago, ezelaya said:

 

Its called a tongue in cheek comment. Sigh. I guess there is a reason I was told to weed through the BS on this site by the guys over at DIS. 

Probably would have been taken as such if you didn't follow it with several other lengthy posts defending your expertise on the topic. Post hoc ergo proctor hoc.

[John&LaLa]

5 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

 

RCI would have a whole bag load of problems housing a couple of thousand crew in the US.  They only have crew visas, so they are only allowed to join or leave a ship, and have to be escorted by bonded agent to the airport direct from the ship.  Not even sure they would be granted entry as their visa is for a ship that is not in the US at the moment.

 

Didnt they just buy a hotel in Freeport 😉

Edited April 2, 2019 by John&LaLa

[twangster]

1 minute ago, John&LaLa said:

 

Didnt they just buy a hotel in Freeport 😉

 

Yes, and now they have 1,200 crew on hand to help clean it up and get it ready.  

[reallyitsmema]

That video I just linked shows the ship being evacuated prior to the crane leaning against the ship.  You can also see the drydock on the port side and around 1:00 to 1:30 look in the water behind the ship.  Not sure if that is coffer dam flooding or what.  Video is from crew member walking off ship, so not much footage of water behind ship.

Edited April 2, 2019 by reallyitsmema

[not-enough-cruising]

1 hour ago, bigdaddy324 said:

Also booked for April 7. My cruise still shows up. I even got an email this morning asking if I wanted to bid for an upgrade. 

I would avoid bidding on an upgrade to one of the Aqua Theater Suites!!!

[Barklee]

10 minutes ago, reallyitsmema said:

That video I just linked shows the ship being evacuated prior to the crane leaning against the ship.  You can also see the drydock on the port side and around 1:00 to 1:30 look in the water behind the ship.  Not sure if that is coffer dam flooding or what.  Video is from crew member walking off ship, so not much footage of water behind ship.

 

It's actually after the accident and at 0:18-0:25 you can see part of the crane hanging over the port side of Deck 6 just in front of the port LED screen

Edited April 2, 2019 by Barklee
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