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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] Wow Mr. Palmland, the L&N could have come up with sixty some Coaches, home or foreign, on, I guess, three days notice? From any of the news clips, it appears that the sea has been calm, but apparently a transfer of the passengers, by means of launches, to another vessel was ruled out. I defer to our "Mariners" around here for comments on that. It was probably just as well that the vessel is being towed to a US port. As I noted earlier, the possibility of a civil seizure is certainly greater in a foreign jurisdiction, the passengers who did not have Passports (I haven't had one in twenty years; just no need) would have been under "house arrest", and the simple logistics of arranging air transportation from [URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLvTVYx3A9Y] Progreso, YU[/URL], let alone busses to get from the docks the nearest airport, MMMO - Merida, (isn't a bus ride in Mexico scary enough; Miss Vickie and Mr. Art, one of those makes that taxicab ride we had together here look tame) would have been overwhelming. So even if "a day was lost", it likely was just as well for all parties. Stay tuned to the cable news outlet of your choice. Addendum: "the latest"; one must wonder if the upscale Carnival brands frequented by several around here are immune form this treatment? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/us/carnival-cruise-line-ship-triumph-towed-into-port.html [/QB][/QUOTE]
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