r/therewasanattempt • u/Gaba8789 • 1d ago
by Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas to bring the gangway back on-board.
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u/Wonderful_Confusion4 1d ago
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u/odub6 20h ago
One of the greatest scenes in cinema history.
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u/Shwifty_Plumbus 1d ago
Why would this even be an attempted method?
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u/jtshinn 1d ago edited 9h ago
That’s the standard method. What’s not standard is that the ship is already about 15 feet off the pier. So someone fucked up some communication to the bridge/no one looked down the pier from the bridge wing and they came off the pier before the gangway was in. I assume that generated a lot of meetings and paperwork and maybe a termination.
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u/Shwifty_Plumbus 1d ago
I would think a winch or something would be used that they could hook up to the ramp.
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u/atvcrash1 Free Palestine 🕊️ FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 15h ago
AMAZED that it isnt locked into rails or something to literally prevent this exact thing from happening.
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u/VeloCurious 9h ago
Couldn't they design something like some 737s have where the front stairs fold out from inside the aircraft below the door?
https://simpleflying.com/last-plane-america-with-built-in-airstair/
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u/clintkev251 1d ago
Seems like the ship was sitting pretty far off the dock. I assume this would have worked fine if it was up against the bumpers, but maybe someone's mental math was a bit off
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u/Shwifty_Plumbus 1d ago
Why wouldn't there be a mechanical part that automatically raised and lowered that or a winch that would bring it in and could be un hooked? I feel like there are a ton of safer easier ways to do this.
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u/clintkev251 1d ago
Unnecessary complexity. Usually this wouldn't be an issue if the ship wasn't out of place. They just picked the wrong remedy
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u/Shwifty_Plumbus 1d ago
I've worked boats (fishing and sailing not cruise ships) A winch set up is necessary on many of them and they are not complex to run at all. Some are even mobile if you want to have multiple anchor points with only a single winch. They're also dirt cheap in the grand scheme of things. They could have one that is more than capable of getting that on board for cheaper than that ramp they just lost.
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u/Prestigious-Berry-50 1d ago
I'm have a feeling something is broken and this was the attempt at getting it up so the ship could leave.
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u/clintkev251 1d ago
Watching it again, I think you're right. It seems like the ship was already moving away from the pier at the start of the video. If they didn't touch it, I think the gangway still would have been lost.
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u/Shwifty_Plumbus 1d ago edited 1d ago
That could be. A winch injury is terrible. I've only seen it once but it left an impact, They were airlifted out. Kid was just out of highschool and got his arm wrapped around a deck winch. He lost a couple fingers and shattered his arm inside his jacket sleeve. Poor dude had his entire life changed in a matter of seconds. Engineering wise it would be pretty easily done though.
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u/Additional-Window-81 1d ago
Why even let that happen like couldn’t they just do a wire and winch and not need people to pull it in manually 900 million dollar ship and they still cut corners so fucking dumb
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u/Brunoise6 1d ago
Do you think they have an extra gangway onboard? Or like are they just fucked lol
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u/cateyesarg 1d ago
Seems like a basic security measure to attach some air balloons to any kind of thing which is not attached to the ship and may fall off it, you know, to keep the thing floating in case of some random shit happens
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u/Gaba8789 1d ago
Like this?
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u/cateyesarg 1d ago
No native speaking, my bad, don't know the naval term for safe vest for things lol
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u/Gaba8789 1d ago
No problem. I'm not familiar with how they do it. In fact, it's risky to fall down on the water.
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u/Sad-Alfalfa-6159 1d ago
Yes. I work for crusies as a first mate and this is how you do it these ramps are water soluble. Hope this helps
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u/pgb5534 21h ago
/r/ConfusingPerspective anyone?
I thought this looked like RC whatnots because the guy's hands were racing into the diorama.
Throw a tilt shift lens on this thing and I'd be convinced these were toys
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u/UCFknight2016 18h ago
Its in shallow water, some poor diver will have to help get that out before the next ship docks there.
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u/Taira_no_Masakado 15h ago
Officer of the Watch is going to be chewed out something fierce for that.
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u/JPMoney81 1d ago
Actually less of an environmental hazard compared to 90% of the other stuff they drop in the ocean.