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CNN iReports has the following:

 

We’re on Silversea silver shadow cruise ship and we just collided with a Vietnamese container ship near Halong bay, Vietnam.  We slammed into the side of it, in thick fog

The other ship was severely damaged, and crew hurt, damage to our ship is being asessed in hong kong.  Passengers were called to muster stations.

Our ship has a hole in the bow, heres a pic of the other ship, it was struck in two places – their bridge, and we ripped a large tear in the side too.

I have more pics of the damage, sending this from my cellphone.

Many Brits and U.S. on board

Cruiseline is down playing incident but its serious.

Andrew lock

Sent from my iPhone

UPDATE: Silversea has the following official statement:

Silver Shadow was involved in a minor incident on Friday morning at around 04:20 GMT as it was approaching the pilot station in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. There was contact between Silver Shadow and a local commercial vessel.

Silver Shadow incurred limited minor dents and guests’ safety was never compromised. The ship is fully operational and continued on its course to Ha Long Bay where all shore tours operated normally. It then continued as scheduled to Hong Kong, where it docked this morning local time. Silversea will carry out a full investigation into the incident.

Something’s not adding up. I guess we’ll have to wait to see pictures from the Silver Shadow to see just how serious it was.

Westerdam in 2008

The USCG just issued a statement that they are investigation and incident that recently took place in Alaska.

The United States Coast Guard is investigating an allision between the 935-foot cruise ship Westerdam and ice in the vicinity of Yakutat Bay Wednesday, May 11.

The Westerdam was reportedly maneuvering through ice near Hubbard Glacier Tuesday evening when it sustained damage approximately 15 feet below the waterline. The hull was reportedly not breached and no injuries or pollution were reported.

The Westerdam continued on her voyage to Sitka, where she was met by Coast Guard officials, along with the classification society for the ship, Lloyd’s Register, according to a spokesperson for the Coast Guard.

I preface by saying that this may or may not be a pic of the actual incident.
Now that having been said, a 127m long river cruise ship carrying mostly Elderly German pax, collided with a cargo ship carrying corn on the Danube River. No one was hurt, but as you can possibly see in the photo, the cargo ship was badly damaged. The Viktoria, the cruise ship, was able to reach port. AIS is now showing her as underway, so it seems that she was able to go to sea again.

In what seems to be a yearly occurrence, the 5,000 ton Polar Star, operated by Polar Star Expeditions, hit a rock and while not sinking, did have its outer hull breached. The 80-pax vessel hit this rock while attempting to anchor off of Detaille Island in the Antarctic Peninsula. All passengers were safe and accounted for and Chilean rescue workers are evacuating the guests off the ship.

The statement from the line:

“The captain reports there is no apparent oil spill outside the ship, but booms have been deployed as a precaution.”

A latter one states that she is now sailing north along the Antarctic Peninsula enroute to Ushuaia, Argentina.

The Costa Classica, that has involved in the collision in china, has been “repaired” in Changxing, China. It took just 96 hours. I say repaired in quotes because, my understanding, she was just made seaworthy. That means they made the hull watertight, checked for breaches in structural integrity, etc. The cabins have not been fully repaired.

The picture above is of the patch job done on the hull.

Costa is planning on sailing the Classica on her next scheduled to leave today from Hong Kong.

Quite the story I came home to. The Costa Classica of Costa Cruises collided this morning with a cargo vessel in China. The incident occured in a deep water channel near the Yangtze River. The 1,300 pax ship was traveling from Korea to Shanghai when the cargo vessel broadsided her in the early morning hours.

There are no fatalities but several passengers have been injured, though nothing serious is reported. All passengers disembarked today and future cruises are in jeopardy as Costa already cancelled a voyage set to leave later today.

In the image above, you can clearly see the 60-ft gash in the side of the ship. The area impacted are all cabins on that part of the deck.

Sergei Kirov / Image via sealetter.com

100 passengers on the chartered ship, Sergei Kirov, got the scare of a life time when their cruise ship collided with a barge on the Volga River. Fortunately there were no deaths or injuries. 3 crew members suffered very minor injuries while they were rescuing passengers belongings from the flooding cabins, or preventing the ship from sinking. The chartered ship, though, suffered a 5m gash   in the ship letting in whater before the crew took action to prevent further disaster.

A spokesman for the local branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry told local news, Interfax:

“The crew listed the ship immediately and began bailing water out and removing property from [flooded] cabins. The water was pumped out, and a patch was improvised from inside.”

The ship was chartered to Europe’s Viking River Cruises. She was sailing with 111 passengers. The incident occurred in the Rybinskoye Reservoir of Russia’s largest river, the Volga.  The other ship involved was transporting sand.

Remember last week when the Legend hit the Enchantment in Cozumel? Well I found another video of it. This one also from the Carnival Legend.

Click here for last weeks video.

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Here is another quick one:

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