180 Queen of the Mississippi + Cruise News
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2013
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
On this week's show, we talk to Simon Veness, Editor in Chief of World of Cruising Magazine. Simon share his seven-day St. Louis to Memphis experience on American Cruise Lines' Queen of the Mississippi.
Also, Cruise Guy drops by with Cruise News.
Thoughts or reviews? Email me: doug@cruiseradio.net
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| 0:10.6 | from tripinsurance.com. Okay, standby. Broadcasting from the cruise radio studios in Jacksonville, |
| 0:18.3 | Florida. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, I'm Matt Baskford. And I'm Doug Parker. Check us out at cruiseradio.net. We're trying something a little new this week. We're filming this show, so you can check it out on our website later on this week. On this show, we'll talk to a guy we've spoken to before. Editor-in-chief of World of Cruising Magazine, Simon Vines. He is going to talk about |
| 0:38.8 | American cruise lines, Queen of the Mississippi. It's a paddle wheeler. But first, Stuart, you're on |
| 0:44.1 | the cruise guys here. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Matt. Hey, Doug. And I will tell you, it will be very |
| 0:48.1 | interesting to get a Brit's opinion of the American interior there going out to Mississippi. |
| 0:54.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:55.0 | What's the latest on Carnival Triumph? |
| 0:56.8 | Investigation show there was a fuel leak in the engine room. |
| 0:59.2 | Is this the done deal? |
| 1:00.3 | Is that the final cause? |
| 1:01.5 | No. |
| 1:01.7 | Well, I mean, they believe, the Coast Guard does believe from their initial investigation |
| 1:05.8 | that there was a leak in a fuel oil return running from one of the ship's engines. |
| 1:11.6 | And a leaking oil hit the hot surface, fire started, and the Coast Guard says, in quotes, |
| 1:17.6 | fire suppression was immediately activated by the crew, first the water fog, and then carbon dioxide, |
| 1:24.6 | and they did a good job, a very good job. |
| 1:30.5 | So the investigation will continue. |
| 1:35.8 | They're also going to look at what essentially happened to the redundancy systems, which were supposed to avoid the ships from being powerless in a fire situation like this, |
| 1:43.3 | which would have come from the Carnival Splendor situation from a couple of years ago. |
| 1:49.5 | So the inspection is going to take some time, and hopefully we'll certainly get to the bottom of it, |
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