After much effort, I have pulled my mind from the gutter ;).

Seriously though; A fist sized hole and the ship sinks? Think about all the ships that survived from a torpedo hit. What kind of damage control did they have on this ship anyway? No compartmental integrity? And what the h*ll is a ship that can't handle that kind of damage doing putzing around in an ice field?

Maybe the water was too cold so the crew didn't want to get wet.

:nope:

I suppose they have to take the view that when 'guests' are on board, the moment a problem such as this arises, they have to 'go overboard' on safety and get them off, if it was purely a crew on the vessel, they'd probably have a crack (fist sized) at trying to repair it.

Wonder if someone doing a really bad British accent will shoot themselves when the lifeboat stations get crowded?

:D Chock

One fist sized hole and they will lose this ship?

Do they have no sealed compartments at all?

Or anyone trained in damage control, or collision mats, for that matter. :huh:

Get ready for geen peace to yell out that it will become a major enviromental hazard and there should be no more ships in Antarctic waters.

"Look Jack! We're sinking!":rotfl:

I was reading that the last time it was in the UK certain deficiencies were found including issues with the water tight doors.

The report also stated that the deficiences were fixed before the ship left port.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Explorer

What i found interesting was that the passengers were taken to military bases in antarctica... I thought that only scientific bases were permitted, i wasnt aware any military forces were allowed there??

I wonder if a wall has gone up yet!!:lol:

Greenpeace themselves are bloody hippocrits the roll around the worlds ocean on thier ship arctic sunrise the engines on that thing produce more pollution than 3 container ships.

No there are parts of antartica that have been split up and owned by other countries america australia UK denmark and a few others i believe have bases there.

Interesting Kapitan, i am obnviously uninformed.

I knew that it was divided into protectorates, but i thought there was an international agreement that it was for science, not military purposes.:hmm: Oh well. learn something new every day