Loved ocean liners as a kid; saddened that they went into such decline. When they built this thing I was psyched –right up until that fucked-up accident just before it entered service.
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I mustve inherited a sailors superstition, because my fawning is always tinged with leeriness.
looks shopped
My parents went on the Queen Mary I (wasn’t it called just the Queen Mary?) and my dad was very upset when they launched II because it was so much bigger and better and he wasn’t on it. Me, I think these things are entirely too big. It’s a floating casino/hotel!
I call Godzilla. Half the fucking boat is missing.
Coast-hugging cruise ships do nothing for me. This may be a floating hotel, but it’s a floating hotel that can go around the world, and plow through a hundred-foot rogue wave without becoming an impromptu submarine.
Building that made an entire town (Saint-Nazaire, where I was born) pretty much survive another few years.
The gangway collapse was a real tragedy: it mostly killed the families of people who’d worked on the ship and were visiting it for the first time.