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Cruise Liner Breaks Free From Moorings, Passenger Falls From Gangway.

Raw video : High winds have ripped a cruise ship from its dock, breaking the vessel's gangway as passengers were disembarking and tipping an elderly man into the sea.

The MSC Fantasia's mooring ropes snapped away from the quay

The Italian-owned MSC Fantasia drifted away from the port wall in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in gusts of up to 110km per hour.

The boat then moved far enough away from the quay to cause the gangway to collapse, around 15m above the sea.

One passenger fell into the water and had to be rescued by four members of the ship's crew.

The man, an 80-year-old Egyptian, is believed to have his head on the side of the ship and was in a serious condition in hospital, according to thinkspain.com.

The crew members were also taken to hospital and have now been discharged.

Palma's local port authority closed the port to traffic as a safety measure.

The 333-metre MSC Fantasia can accommodate 4,000 passengers and 1,325 crew members.

It is advertised by its owners MSC Italian Cruises as "the world's most beautiful cruise ship".

All on-board entertainment was cancelled for the night as result of the incident on Thursday.

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Added: Mar-6-2009 Occurred On: Mar-6-2009
By: barnesy
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Tags: Cruise Liner Break Free From Moorings, Passengers Fall From Gangway
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  • Nice.....strong winds against that huge flat side. Mother Nature wins! Sorry for the people in the water, but I guess they were okay.

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
    Barackastanian (84.78)  
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  • Oh snap, that was some serious energy transfer...

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
    T_Bone69 (474.76)  

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    • Nope just Talk to my friend yesterday whos living down there its heavy winds and bad weather this week proberly the reason i would guess.

      Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
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    • Heh!

      Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
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    • it seems like the the line never parted, looked like the eye popped off the first timberhead, then the second came out of the dock and struck the ship(usually you don't see lines making a black mark like it did there at the hawspipe).Those were new lines too. Seems like anyway- i'm not a forensic analyst :)

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  • Why do people always have to scream when something happens?

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
    concisekwill (22.14)  

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  • I unload ships for a living, I have for the past 24 years. Those were lines, not cables. Lines are either hemp or synthetic, Those were not hemp lines which are stronger,you can tell by the way the lines snapped back, hemp line just drops and are much thicker. If that ship would have been tied up with steel cable and spring lines from the Bow and aft,it would have never came loose from the mooring. The front and rear anchors should have been dropped. The Master of that ship should be fired. More..

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
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    • i see your point however it seems to me that the lines didnt part and from the vid it looks like he is using springs i think this appears to be a failure of the jetty fittings not a failure of the ropes used.That said I do think if the conditions were making this berth so unstable they should have considered either moving to a different berth, using tugs to assist berth stability or simply left port

      Posted Mar-7-2009 By 
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    • You make a great point. I have seen 1,000' freighters not even move in 70mph wind if the ship is tied up right. Then I have seen a 700' ship crash into a dock because of poor ship handling and 35mph wind with a tug.

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  • Look's like an all expense paid trip.

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
    ideaman (37.18)

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  • Last inspection --Everything was ship-shape.

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
    29don29 (20.18)  

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  • walked the plank

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
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  • Given the prevailing weather conditions, the captain of this ship should have considered leaving port if he couldnt guarantee safely lying alongside or perhaps using tugs to keep him alongside.In fairness though, this does seem to be a failure of the bollards on the jetty as opposed to the headropes parting.I saw HMS Invincible pull bollards out of the jetty whilst alongside in Rosyth years ago.They ended up with three tugs keeping her pushed alongside for 3 days

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
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  • Some balls the camera guy/girl had at the end filming the frayed line. Or could be just plain stupid.

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
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  • sucks if it's blowing like this :)

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
    rennergericht (24.34)  

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  • Cannonball!

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
    controlmonkey (59.26)

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  • Now that's a bad seamanship right there

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
    Suns_Funs (199.80)

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  • would be pretty scary being the guy in water thinking that huge ship is going to come back against the dock

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
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  • As the ship is flowing away there was plenty of time to see that it was very dangerous to cross the gangway, What was thinking this old man???

    Posted Mar-6-2009 By 
    xoho (1206.06)

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