{"id":18536,"date":"2013-08-13T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=18536"},"modified":"2013-08-13T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T08:00:18","slug":"tuesday-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=18536","title":{"rendered":"When Ships Get Locked in a Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"

This news item was posted a few days ago on <\/span>Cruise Critic<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

"AmaWaterways<\/i><\/a> have yet to confirm the details surrounding an incident in which their river cruise boat <\/i>AmaDagio<\/i><\/a> was trapped in a lock with another ship (on the Rhone River in France), forcing the line to debark passengers and delay the scheduled itinerary…"<\/i><\/p>\n

You've never really lived until you've been stuck in a lock in France.<\/p>\n

The passengers on the AmaDagio had some options, and that's not always the case. Especially if there's only one passenger…and one crew member.<\/p>\n

For us, it was on the Midi Canal<\/a> in southern France. We manoeuvred our ship, all 27 feet of it, into 64 locks that week. In one of them, we were trapped.<\/p>\n

The water was dropping, just like it was supposed to because all 64 of our locks were going downstream. The "ship" beside us started to list…inward…think of a boat tipping sideways into the middle of a confined space. Our "ship" was doing the same thing.<\/p>\n

There was no evacuation plan. Passenger(s) were stuck, going down with the ship as it were. The scheduled itinerary was endangered, especially if the boats were broken.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for both vessels, there was a man at the wheel of the lock, controlling the dispersement of the water. Yes, a locksmith. He closed the gate, stopped the flow of water, allowed more water to pour in from the top, and the two ships became horizontal again.<\/p>\n

After a few minutes of impending terror, we kept to the itinerary in one piece. The one-piece was more important than the itinerary.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Carnival Splendor<\/a>
\n\t8 nights<\/span>
\n\tOctober 8, 2013<\/span>
\n\tNew York<\/a> (return): <\/span>Grand Turk<\/a>, <\/span>Half Moon Cay<\/a>, <\/span>Nassau<\/a>
\n\tInside: $369<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $46<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This news item was posted a few days ago on Cruise Critic: "AmaWaterways have yet to confirm the details surrounding an incident in which their river cruise boat AmaDagio was trapped in a lock with another ship (on the Rhone River in France), forcing the line to debark passengers and delay the scheduled itinerary…" You've… Continue reading When Ships Get Locked in a Lock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[1325,1290,137,154,478,912,72,35,1326,1251,42],"class_list":["post-18536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-amadagio","tag-amawaterways","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-splendor","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-european-river-cruising","tag-midi-canal","tag-river-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}