Comments on: Largest cruise ship in the world

By: isiah

isiah — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:01:18 +0000

Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte… just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named “The Battle of Waterloo” and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes the shark go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark… he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be living… until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they… rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us… he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened… waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:58:24 +0000

So much for getting away from it all because you will be cruising with everything–including too many people.

By: beharu

beharu — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:45:59 +0000

not very nice looking ship

By: Mick Nash

Mick Nash — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:40:54 +0000

And its own UFO

By: SWIFTY55

SWIFTY55 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:31:31 +0000

A Ship with it’s own Zip Code

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:16:23 +0000

Grog has it right. That behemoth will screw up the works at every port it pulls into. Just imagine some small port that is geared toward 2000 tourists at a time trying to deal with 6000 folks wanting shopping, sightseeing and bars.

By: Ross Campbell

Ross Campbell — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:54:36 +0000

My guess is that its a giant floating casino.

By: crispy

crispy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:27:45 +0000

That’s just an accident waiting to happen. I agree with you guys. It’s ugly. I keep thinking about those old soviet apartment blocks.

By: raphael347

raphael347 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:35:44 +0000

The Titanic was gorgeous! This monstrosity is just plain FUGLY!

The decor looks like this is where all 1960’s furnishings went to die!

And and the promenade looks exactly like any mall or airport!

Luxurious?…..I think NOT!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:27:55 +0000

Yuck, it looks like a ship for vagrants or at the very best a ghetto housing project.