Here is an interesting thread started by someone on the ill fated cruise.

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=381758

:eek: Wow, that's a pretty harrowing description.

On a side note...hey neat, cruise geeks!

If I'm ever in a cruise accident, the last thing I want is staff members busy seeing if people need hugs. Medical attention, food, water, blankets, yes. Hugs? Not so much.

Am I a bad person for laughing at the part about the person naked on the massage table coasting into the other room?

That thread said 12 degrees.

Lol- I've been a closet cruise geek for over a year now, since before our cruise to Alaska. At least one other member here is as well.;) CC can be a vicious place to post, full of trolls and upgrade grubs and the like, but it is very informative as well.

Even a 12 degree list is pretty damned scary, epecially if you consider that 45 will capsize. I think of all the glass and items that could go flying and I can only imagine the level of destruction. I hope that little girl is okay.:(

CC makes MC look like a picnic. There's lots of good info, but you have to sort through the crap to get there. Lots of holier-than-thou types around, brand loyalty wars, and over-zealous moderation. (when I was reading the NCL board, the moderator would delete entire threads if someone posted something inappropriate. This would then reduce post counts. Since many people made a big deal about publicly dismissing anything a low count poster said, and since these were frequently newbie-heavy threads deleted due to troll work, it was very discouraging.) Differences of opinion are frequently viewed as sedition. But there's truly a lot of good info there, mixed in with all the other stuff.

Hey, now that's swank! Kentucky Fried Movie! That and Blazing Saddles, great funny movies!!

The ship listing, not so funny (well, ok, maybe the neekid lady on the table sliding into the next room). ;)

We used CruiseCritic extensively to plan and research our Alaska cruise of this past spring, and made several new friends. I didn't go much into the meta-discussion threads, though.

According to the witness posting in that thread, the scheduled movie for the evening was "Titanic". I can't help but imagine if this incident had occurred during the film.

I would say CruiseCritics is a good place for some basic research. For my more exacting cruise needs I use rec.travel.cruises. A very savvy bunch with less trolls to the gallon. If you are not familiar with usenet you can get free access to rec.travel.cruises via recgroups.com

So, why would they show 'Titanic' on a cruise ship? I'm being half funny, half serious. I mean, they can't/won't show any plane crash movies on airplanes... isn't there a similar rule on cruise ships? I'm guessing not.
:)