re: Cruise Liner, American Heritage, sinking near GNO

Posted by Lonnie Utah

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Posted on 11/13/26 at 6:29 pm to OU Guy

This was all I could think of listening to the dude doing the narration...

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Posted by Twenty 49

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Posted on 11/13/26 at 6:45 pm to Lonnie Utah

Reminds me of the 1996 crash by MV Bright Field. No one killed, but some Riverwalk Mall shoppers ended up in the water around the Poydras Street wharf. Barely missed a casino boat full of hundreds of gamers.

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Posted by Higgysmalls

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Posted on 11/13/26 at 6:47 pm to Twenty 49

I'm gonna go down stream tomorrow and get some of those chairs

Posted by LNCHBOX

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Posted on 11/13/26 at 6:58 pm to CharlesLSU

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Jesus! Where the frick are the responders?!?!?!

Emergency vessels were on scene and helping prior to the AH rolling and sinking.

Posted by hawgfaninc

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Posted on 11/13/26 at 7:08 pm to hawgfaninc

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Three very different possibilities:

1) Mechanical failure. The crew reacted quickly, dropping anchor to slow the ship.

2) The anchor slipped during the bridge approach, shifting the pivot point forward and increasing the rate of turn.

3) Both. Crews don’t practice purposely dropping anchor often so it’s possible a mechanical failure caused the captain to order the anchor dropped and the helmsman was not prepared for the faster rate of turn.

Also… why didn’t they have tugboats alongside?

Why did we never have the public hearing after the Baltimore Bridge collapse in 2024. We had a brief NTSB report but no drawn out public hearing like we saw after the El Faro, Deepwater Horizon and Marine Electric.

Those hearings are important to find hidden lessons learned but neither the Biden nor the Trump administration was eager to hold one.

BTW, Captain Jeremy is an excellent follow.

Posted by CitizenK

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Posted on 11/13/26 at 7:15 pm to TheWiz

Tinker toy tanker with the capacity of less than 2 river barges

Posted by KBI2

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Posted on 11/13/26 at 7:36 pm to Twenty 49

“Reminds me of the 1996 crash by MV Bright Field”

I had just walked in the doors by the old sharper image when it hit. That day sucked.

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Posted by Strannix

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Posted on 11/13/26 at 7:43 pm to TheWiz

This is what happens when democrats take over congress

Posted by MorbidTheClown

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Posted on 11/13/26 at 7:44 pm to TheWiz

1 call. That’s all. IYKYK

Posted by achenator

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Posted on 11/13/26 at 7:48 pm to CitizenK

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Tinker toy tanker with the capacity of less than 2 river barges

Source? At 18k deadweight it’s kind of small as tankers go but a jumbo tanker barge is about 3500, no?

This post was edited on 11/13/26 at 7:50 pm

Posted by CitizenK

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Posted on 11/13/26 at 7:49 pm to achenator

DWT is shy of 18,000 tons. That includes fuel, cargo, crew and provisions including drinking water. It is designed with heating coils for asphalt (not asphalt concrete used for roads, but bottom of the barrels of crude oil)

You're correct about river barges, I was thinking tons instead of barrels.

This post was edited on 11/13/26 at 7:57 pm