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It IS boating related.... Casino boat with 123 people aboard gets grounded on rocks overnight during its maiden voyage | Mail Online

Is that forward raked windows in the pilothouse?

Big ooops, but a doesn't look like it will be too bad an outcome, except for the Captain I would think.

What's all this talk about anchors?

At least it didn't fall over.

Conrad said:

At least it didn't fall over.

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Really!!

Not in anyway related to the grounding, but it sure seems like there is limited visibility from the bridge.


Wow, in the USA too. I wonder what the story is? You would think that a boat like this grounding would have to bee 100% negligence.

Man, I know that casino boats and cruise ships want to keep you onboard, but running aground to do it is a bit over the top!

Maybe they just wanted it to be still so the roulette wheels will work.

More, thanks to Gcaptain...

Jobe said:

What's all this talk about anchors?

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A proper anchor would have given a bulls-eye for the Captain to aim through.

healhustler said:

A proper anchor would have given a bulls-eye for the Captain to aim through.

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Who needs a "Bulls eye"? Looks like he hit it first time up!

Marty.................

Should be a piece of cake for a determined TowBoat U.S. guy to handle.

Isn`t the whole idea of casino boats to be outside territorial limits, and gambling laws. Not actually on land.

They said it was on the rocks. What rocks?

It's mostly a mud/sand mixture in those parts.

Hilarious quotes from the passengers as they were "rescued" off the boat.
Gambling ship passengers glad to be home after ordeal at sea | savannahnow.com
“We had to jump from the boat to a raft and then climb up a ladder onto the Coast Guard ship,” she said. “It was terrifying.

And the plot thickens:

the captain said the accident occurred because the sandbar that grounded the ship was not yet on the nautical charts.
But Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Lauren Jorgensen said the 174-foot gambling ship reported its grounding to the Coast Guard shortly before midnight Tuesday, with the ship’s captain saying its chart plotter had malfunctioned, causing the vessel to veer off course.

Rambler said:

It's mostly a mud/sand mixture in those parts.

Hilarious quotes from the passengers as they were "rescued" off the boat.
Gambling ship passengers glad to be home after ordeal at sea | savannahnow.com
“We had to jump from the boat to a raft and then climb up a ladder onto the Coast Guard ship,” she said. “It was terrifying.

And the plot thickens:

the captain said the accident occurred because the sandbar that grounded the ship was not yet on the nautical charts.
But Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Lauren Jorgensen said the 174-foot gambling ship reported its grounding to the Coast Guard shortly before midnight Tuesday, with the ship’s captain saying its chart plotter had malfunctioned, causing the vessel to veer off course.

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I bet they are terrified by clowns at the circus and monkeys at the zoo!
The chartplotter made the vessel veer?
Its time for the giraffe!
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They should be made to watch the OLD version of the movie "Titanic" till they start drooling...then ask them again about this incident.

psneeld said:

They should be made to watch the OLD version of the movie "Titanic" till they start drooling...then ask them again about this incident.

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Probably they DID see the "Titanic" movie, which is why they were so terrified. The icebergs off Savannah are hell this time of year, as I understand it. Plus they may have seen "Jaws." The great whites swarming all around the sand bars might well be pretending to just be a school of innocent bait fish!

(Best t-shirt I ever saw: "It sank. Get over it."

Let's see, in the video there is a red bout on the port side of the boat as its facing the shore. Yep got all those nav rules down, 'red, right, returning', but I always have to get out and throw a rock to remember which is left and right; anyways I can see a red thingy, so we're OK. Maybe they just do it different in dixie (that'l get me some comment...)

RED said:

Let's see, in the video there is a red bout on the port side of the boat as its facing the shore. Yep got all those nav rules down, 'red, right, returning', but I always have to get out and throw a rock to remember which is left and right; anyways I can see a red thingy, so we're OK. Maybe they just do it different in dixie (that'l get me some comment...)

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Is the buoy you are talking about in the last pic in the link in the first post?

I saw the bouy in the video on the Mail link, which pictures the coasties going out.
Also, apologies to friends in the south. I was just thinking, gambling boat, redneck....

LOL! Don't worry Red, they can take it!

Read a report that the boat backed off the bar on its own power without a tow, at high tide.

Ski in NC said:

Read a report that the boat backed off the bar on its own power without a tow, at high tide.

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Was the boat taking bets on getting off unassisted, vs, towed? Now grounding is another danger of gambling.

Rambler said:

“We had to jump from the boat to a raft and then climb up a ladder onto the Coast Guard ship,” she said. “It was terrifying.

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Imagine the ordeal if they had to use those red rafts on top!

On the ICW, red buoys/markers are toward the mainland. Not so out in open water where this ship should have been.

One chartplotter caused this? Yeah. Right.

Rambler said:

On the ICW, red buoys/markers are toward the mainland. Not so out in open water where this ship should have been.

One chartplotter caused this? Yeah. Right.

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From the article...

"The 174-foot-long Escapade was about 1.8 miles off the north end of Tybee Island, a popular beach destination east of Savannah, in the Calibogue Sound near Hilton Head, South Carolina, the Coast Guard said."

That's a pretty good distance from the ICW.

The one pic with the jetty in it has it looking like the pic was taken from a boat in the Savannah River mouth looking towards Hilton Head.

....but the red buoy in the video doesn't show up on my charts anywhere's near the reported 1.8 miles north of Tybee.

The boat was on course, he just got the high and low tide numbers reversed, no red neck insinuation off course.

Is it true the that the first 125 passengers off the vessel were young kids from Columbia?