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Watch As Luxury Passenger Ship Burns In Greek Shipyard
If the unfortunate, yet hilarious, sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise liner in January 2012 off the Tuscan coast was the best symbol of the foundering Eurozone, then we are unsure just what the symbolic value is of the fire that raged over the weekend on the Majestic International’s Ocean Countess cruise ship while laid up at a shipyard in Greece.
As Gcaptain reported, the Ocean Countess caught fire Saturday at the Chalkis Shipyard near Chalkis (or Khalkis), Greece, north of Athens. All five crewmembers were evacuated safely, but as of Sunday firefighting crews were still trying to contain the blaze, reports say. The Ocean Countess was launched as the Cunard Countess in 1976 and has been laid up at the shipyard for over a year since its last charter to UK-based Cruise & Maritime Voyages ended.
Supposedly, the vessel was scheduled to re-enter service next year. It won't.
Unlike the Costa Concordia, this tale has a somewhat happy ending: Vernicos Salvage and Tug reports that the fire onboard the Ocean Countess has been brought under control through firefighting efforts by the crew of their Alexander 3 tug.
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Torapalos, Torapalos, Torapalos!
THIS IIIIIS SPARTA!!!!!
"I can't stand it I know you planned it
I'm gonna set it straight, this watergate
I can't stand rocking when I'm in here
Because your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear
So while you sit back and wonder why
I got this fucking thorn in my side
Oh my, it's a mirage
I'm tellin' y'all it's sabotage"
adam was the first to...drop
Frank Zappa and the Motha's were at the best place around...
then some stupid on the cruise ship...
Insurance.
Must have taken on Paulie as a partner.
Pull It.
Zappa was a stooge for MIC/SeeEye-A like his dad. Laurel Canyon - the haven for the children of the NWO & elites.
http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr93.html
Along with David Crosby, Jim Morrison, Stephen Stills and a bunch more.
You forgot to mention: "I knew you'd be surprised" and "Don't fool yourself... it's going right up yer..."
Although some are partial to having "a nasty little [bleep] Princess, with titanic [bleep] and sandblasted zits". /sarc
Well, now we know the fire system works.
Bullish for ship breakers!
Their very last asset goes up in flames. Souflakis for mr. Draghi as of now.
"All 5 crew members were evacuated..."
I wonder if this is an illuminati message symbolizing their proud destruction of Greece.
Just wondered why a cruse ship was tied off to some derelict ship perhaps 2 birds with one stone?
The rusty one is a cunningly disguised Trojan Horse.
How many Greeks does it take to light a fire...answer 5
Jewish fire in a Greek shipyard. Score one for the Globalists.
How about having Greek-Fire* in a [bleep] shipyard?
* http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/244571/Greek-fire
Salvage rights ftw.
Lloyds Of London gonna hate them bitchez for that there insurance claim.
Greek Lightning
Krugman economic stimulus
BBQ on the lido deck...
>>yet hilarious, sinking of the Costa Concordia ???
what is hilarious about when some people die?
are you f retarded t.turd.en?
show some respect.
HOW DISGUSTING!!!
Cause the captain was a pansy.
This is fight club and not a church social.
Their names were Robert Paulson.
Oh lighten up Francis (no disrespect Francis) He is talking about the fact that the cowardly captain abandoned ship to save himself.
I guess i missed the hilarious part.
Cause the captain was a blubbering pansy.
He did it all for the nookie.
At least the Greeks still have fuel for their helicopters
I've been here far too long: my first reaction was "insurance scam"
An exemplary Greek fire restructuring concept, GS approved.
"Pull it"
the pos up against the port beam is a stinking rust bucket.
friction fire - worthless hulk rubs up against valuable insurance policy.
The reconstruction of this ship will provide stimulus to the (non-existent) Greek economy.
More folks in the USSA love to go on cruises and then chat about it for 6 months or longer. They love being herded.
Fuck this cruise thing.
I never understood it.
The future's gonna be : 11 months in the FEMA camp, 4 weeks on a cruise, rinse and repeat.
"Greek lightning"
reference for those who don't get it immediately: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Greek%20Lightning
doing it greek...someone's in for a thrill.
I'm sure the insurance claim was submitted before the fire was put out.
Any Gold or Bitcoins on-board ?
Set fire for insurance purposes ? it is scrap now and will need a refit.
Does this mean there will be a sale ?
Spartilas ...............
Are the greek fireman called: hero, heh-row , gyro, jeer-row, JYE-roe or YEE-roe?
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If Greeks were not so fucking honest, one would be sure it was arson.
That is true you know.
Greeks despite their obvious character flaws, are very honest.
In-fact one might say they (we) are too honest.
We just say it like it is.
Proof of Greek honesty from the New York Times:
In the wealthy, northern suburbs of this city, where summer temperatures often hit the high 90s, just 324 residents checked the box on their tax returns admitting that they owned pools.
So tax investigators studied satellite photos of the area — a sprawling collection of expensive villas tucked behind tall gates — and came back with a decidedly different number: 16,974 pools.
Various studies, including one by the Federation of Greek Industries last year, have estimated that the government may be losing as much as $30 billion a year to tax evasion...
Only the theives think it is a crime to steal from them.
Exactly
It is not a crime to stop a robbery.
Over-insuring FTW.
As Pliny the Elder said, "Iudaeorum fulgur percusserit in Cretam etiam."
I think you're supposed to use "caseus papam" in place of "Iudaeorum" per the ZH standard.
The ship next to the Ocean Countess looks like the one I could afford to travel on.
Am I the only who expected the word "shipyard" to include a place with buildings and not just a barren hillside and rusty ship to lash on to?
Any port in a storm?
But if they went to a real shipyard the fire might damage something of value.
Wouldn't want that now, would we?
They'll do anything to get rid of the Norwalk virus...
you nose
what with the terrible loss of life and alls
larry silverstein gave the orders to pull it floyds of london insurance will be paying out 3 times for this sad loss.
but fear not larry and israel will be back with a bigger and newer and stronger ship fully insured into infinity.
LLoyds won't even notice. Those who back the insurance policies with their money / assets (the do-called "Names") will be the ones picking up the pieces, as they always do.
Methinks a cheap(er) way to pay for a refit - however the Insurance Industry is not stupid, and it'll be interesting to see what happens here. Negligence / incompetence on behalf of the "Shipyard" will be picked up by their insurers, not the vessel owners.
Nicky the squatter built a cooking fire on the ballroom floor.
It had the nicest view until the smoke got too heavy.
Tyler i want to say you one thing,
i appreciate very much what you do everday, but saying that the concordia accident is hilarious is a bit too far for me.
i would say it's one of the most terrible thing dying because someone else fault, especially if he's a fucking drunk italian Don Giovanni who was entertaining a blonde bitch,
instead of doing his duty.
sorry for bad english
Arph