Princess Kaguya

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Princes Kaguya will never sail!!

7 (21.9%)

She will defenitly start sailing

3 (9.4%)

most ugly ship ever seen

4 (12.5%)

It will be the best ship in the world

1 (3.1%)

What where they thinking?!

13 (40.6%)

Can the it float when it will be launched?

4 (12.5%)

Total Members Voted: 29

Voting closed: August 11, 2015, 13:45:04

[McGherkin]

Well I don't know how to build computers, so for the moment I'll leave it to Compaq

[Firestar]

It's quite simple. You only need about 8 different parts.

[McGherkin]

Software?

[Firestar]

You don't need any software, except for drivers maybe but they usually come with it.

[McGherkin]

I'd probably end with a pile of broken bits at the end

Anyway, Back on topic.

Should Kaguya be built?

I think yes as an engineering achievement, but no as a device for carrying 1500 chavs to Benidorm.

[Firestar]

This is small talk. We're allowed to go off topic.

I find the Princess Kaguya to be ridiculous enough.

[clanky]

I think yes as an engineering achievement, but no as a device for carrying 1500 chavs to Benidorm.

I'd go with yes for both so long as they didn't come back!

To be honest, no I don't think she should be built.  It is only a matter of time before a cruise ship goes hurtling to the bottom and the bigger these ships get the more people are going to be killed when it happens.

Yes safety standards are high, but it is impossible to prevent every accident, and by the law of averages one of these days one of the accidents will be major, as these ships are getting larger and larger they are also becoming technically more and more complex, combined with ever dropping standards in training for seafarers means that accidents become more and more likely, the scale of any major incident becomes larger and larger and the crew will be less and less able to deal with one when it happens.

Apart from that I think these very large crowd carriers also loose something that was special about cruising in the days of smaller more intimate ships.

[The Ferry Man]

I still cannot see how you could possibly evacuate 3-4 thousand people in time as well...

[clanky]

I still cannot see how you could possibly evacuate 3-4 thousand people in time as well...

You can't - everyone knows that you can't, the rules say 30 minutes, and if you take 4,000 able bodied people who have had some training in the use of boats etc. you still struggle, if you take 4,000 cruise ship passengers and shut all the fire doors it would be carnage.

Ship construction, especially in the area of structural fire protection is good, but at the end of the day if a major fire does break out, you have 4,000 people in a big steel box.

[The Ferry Man]

eactly - some look okay, but they are really a disaster waiting to happen 

I was talking to someone once who had been on one of the less big big cruisers, and I am sure I rember him saying that when departure day came, they had to empty it out in lots, so many people, then another group...