Stretching a Cruise Liner

[croyde]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25970361

Time lapse footage of a Cruise Liner being cut in half and having a 30m section added.

[hurstg01]

Now thats a proper cut 'n' shut

[stuartmmcfc]

No wonder they changed the name, can you imagine being on board during a storm and worrying how good the welding was!?

[dudleybloke]

impressive!

[Dogwatch]

'First, the two halves are pulled apart'.

No, I think that came quite a way down the List Of Things To Do.


....or maybe some bloke went round drilling holes like those round a tax disc and then they really did pull it apart



(no the tax disc holes don't work either)

[dudleybloke]

didnt you see the bloke with the junior hacksaw?

[Simpo Two]

hurstg01 said:

Now thats a proper cut 'n' shut

Cut 'n' open surely?

I like the instructions... 'first cut the ship in half... insert the new bit... seal it up.... repaint'.

Looks nice though.

[Godalmighty83]

Makes sense, new ships are built in blocks rather then from the keel up and then pasted together, even aircraft carriers-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/qeclasscarriers/81780...

[MBBlat]

Nothing new to this.
In fact if you went to France in the ninety's on one of the P&O/Townsend Thoresen ferries you were probably on a ship that had been stretched.

[megaphone]

Balmoral is now with Fred Olsen , they have stretched one of their ships before, Ms Braemar. Cheap way of getting
extra capacity.

[FourWheelDrift]

We've done it to warships as well. The Royal Navy added an extra 30m to the length of the WWII aircraft carrier HMS Victorious's length during an 1957 refit

[Sheets Tabuer]

All they need now is a couple of neon tubes underneath and they can hire it out for chav parties

[MocMocaMoc]

3 / 10.

Makes you wonder why they went to all that bother for the sake of 30 meters?!

Most kids could span that distance in the corridors quicker than Usain Bolt - and it always feels quicker, what with being so close to the walls and that.

Make it 130m and you're doing something worth while.

Under achievers, I say. Should have aimed higher.

[croyde]

There was a leaflet going around here about a new 40 storey building going up and how the residents were up in arms about it.

I was livid as I wanted it to be 140 storeys

[northwest monkey]

What could possibly go wrong....