DON'T tell me this!

We Cruise Too----I have obviously been following happenings with respect to the Pacific Princess closely, information is rather sparse to say the least. But you are the only one who had found detail on the hull damage. Any more info from your source will be appreciated. In particular, I am concerned about the damage to mechanical equipment in Compartment 2 in the engine room where we know that flooding knocked out the entire vacuum system of the ship, rendering lavatory facilities unusable and that some crew quarters on deck two there had to be evacuated as well.

Apparently Princess has finally made another news release today, in the form of an email. Sure would like to know who is privy to these emails. Anyway, here are a couple of pertinent and recent posts.

“In case you didn't see an email from Princess yet, the ship is scheduled to make its way to Genoa tomorrow to continue the repair process. The Oct 28 cruise is still on, but it depends on how the repairs proceed.”

“Both of Fincantieri's drydocks in Genoa can take the Pacific. GMG also has 3 drydocks that can handle the Pacific. With a 5-6 hour run to Genoa, and a 11 hour run from Genoa to Civitavecchia, and an a.m. 28th embarkation in Civitavecchia, that gives them better than 8 days to dock the ship, repair, paint, and undock. For a ship this size, and the damage quoted previously, this is eminently doable. The biggest time consumer is having enough time to let the underwater paint cure before flooding the drydock. I am assuming they are drydocking, because underwater repairs using a cofferdam could have been done in Nice, but the yard facilities are better in Genoa, so they still could do repairs without drydocking.”

Looks like its underway ...

http://www.sea-scanner.com/schiffsposition.php?schiff=pacific+princess

Is your cruise still on ...hoping so!

OOps, made a mistake and posted to the wrong thread and now can't get rid of it. Sorry.

Sending good vibes for a quick fix...

Please keep posting to let us know what happens. I sure hope it works out for you.

We cruised quite a bit on the original Royal Princess. One disadvantage of that ship was no stern thruster(s), meaning we constantly had tug assists, since it only had rudder with conventional propeller and shaft propulsion. It did have two bow thrusters. I notice that the R ships, did not have stern thrusters. The Pacific Princess is R-3. So I guess it hasn’t any either. It has been recognized for sometime in marine publications that “A modern cruise ship that does not have azipods has to be equipped with stern thrusters in order to maneuver when docking and undocking.”

If posters are correct that thunderstorms with wind squalls were prevalent at the time the Pacific Princess entered the channel with no tug assist and a sudden gust took it into the breakwater striking rocks at around midship, I wonder if the absence of stern thrusters and or tugs might have been a contributing factor here. (I’m not sure where compartment “2” is on that vessel but apparently it is a mechanical compartment.)

Thanks for the update, that's the first I heard about a "mechanical compartment" being flooded. I was beginning to feel a little more positive about things until that news, as it could well mean a lot of equipment is damaged due to salt water flooding and will have to be replaced as well as a couple of holes in the hull having to be patched.

Sounds like the news is getting better and better!

Keep us posted. It sounds as if everything will work out in your favor!

It would seem Nice, was not so nice......sorry.........hope they make the repairs quick enough for your trip.