{"id":12266,"date":"2007-11-23T10:12:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12266"},"modified":"2014-01-07T21:37:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T02:37:42","slug":"that-sinking-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/23\/that-sinking-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"That sinking feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news this morning brings word of a cruise ship sinking in Antarctic waters, and since Irene and I know what it feels like to be aboard a cruise ship in Antarctic waters<\/a>, the thought of passengers hearing midnight cries of “Abandon ship!” for real instead of as a drill strikes a little too close.<\/p>\n

According to the story in the New York Times<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — More than 150 passengers and crew took to lifeboats in Antarctic waters on Friday after their cruise ship hit an object and began taking on water through a hole in the hull, Britain’s coast guard said. No injuries were reported.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m glad to see that Lindblad’s M.S. Endeavor<\/i>, which was our home away from home back in January 2005, was involved in the rescue mission rather than being the ship that required evacuation.<\/p>\n

Although the New York Times<\/i> doesn’t speculate on the ship’s fate, CBS News reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Neil Oliver of the Coast Guard station at Falmouth, England said earlier that the ship was expected to sink. <\/p>\n

“We know she has hit something,” Oliver said early in the rescue operation. “They do expect her to go down shortly.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That I’m warm and toasty here instead of wet and chilly in a Zodiac lifeboat there is just a little something extra to be thankful for the day after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

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The news this morning brings word of a cruise ship sinking in Antarctic waters, and since Irene and I know what it feels like to be aboard a cruise ship in Antarctic waters, the thought of passengers hearing midnight cries of “Abandon ship!” for real instead of as a drill strikes a little too close. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12269,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions\/12269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}