Bermuda+drone = CREEP

[deliver42]

I don't think cruise lines should allow drones onboard. Maybe I'm in the minority, but that's my feeling. If that drone came from land, there's nothing that can be done, but if it was from someone on board, then that person needs help.

[Biker19]

1 minute ago, deliver42 said:

I don't think cruise lines should allow drones onboard. 

They are allowed to be transported but not used on board.

[island lady]

18 minutes ago, Mikew0805 said:

That was Galveston and a Vision class ship in the posted video. 

 

Personally I have no problem with the drones. There is no expectation of privacy on a balcony of a cruise ship.

 

Obviously the police in Texas have a problem with it.

 

 

[matj2000]

I think I already found the video footage on the internet.....

[asalligo]

16 minutes ago, island lady said:

 

Obviously the police in Texas have a problem with it.

 

 

 

That was the cops making the video, look at the beginning. The drone case is sitting on his patrol car. There is no privacy in this day just because you cannot see anyone else. Look online for videos of the Nikon Coolpix P900 and P1000. That thing can take clear pictures and video so far away that you cannot see the person taking the images at all.  

Edited November 15, 2018 by asalligo

[Charles4515]

35 minutes ago, Mikew0805 said:

That was Galveston and a Vision class ship in the posted video. 

 

Personally I have no problem with the drones. There is no expectation of privacy on a balcony of a cruise ship.

 

I don’t have a problem with them in general. I don’t object to cruise lines allowing them onboard to be transported between ports but they should keep their distance from the ship and definitely not be close up to the balconies. The 50 meters away in Bermuda seems like a reasonable rule. 

[island lady]

9 minutes ago, asalligo said:

 

That was the cops making the video, look at the beginning. The drone case is sitting on his patrol car. 

 

Look again.  Cops showed up at the end with several officers and several patrol cars.  The drone operator was not in uniform.  The "cop car" with the package on the trunk you mentioned in the beginning....looks like a taxi to me.  

[asalligo]

2 minutes ago, island lady said:

 

Look again.  Cops showed up at the end with several officers and several patrol cars.  The drone operator was not in uniform.  The "cop car" with the package on the trunk you mentioned in the beginning....looks like a taxi to me.  

 

Front crash bar and a spotlight at the driver window. That of course does not mean the rest were not there to end his filming. 

[Biker19]

3 minutes ago, Charles4515 said:

The 50 meters away in Bermuda seems like a reasonable rule. 

....until you realize how good the zoom lens is on some of those drones.

[Charles4515]

Just now, island lady said:

 

Look again.  Cops showed up at the end with several officers and several patrol cars.  The drone operator was not in uniform.  The "cop car" with the package on the trunk you mentioned in the beginning....looks like a taxi to me.  

 

What I think the drone operator did wrong for sure was the last three minutes. Directly overhead they should not do. There may be rule about the channel and port being no fly. There are many no fly areas. I live in one. 

[island lady]

3 minutes ago, Charles4515 said:

 

What I think the drone operator did wrong for sure was the last three minutes. Directly overhead they should not do. There may be rule about the channel and port being no fly. There are many no fly areas. I live in one. 

 

Agree...directly over the whole ship.  There is a reason one or more police boats escort a ship out of port.  Why would they want a strange drone flown by who knows who...to fly low over a ship.  I can see why they showed up. 

[Charles4515]

6 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

....until you realize how good the zoom lens is on some of those drones.

 

Someone could go on that side with a boat with a zoom lens. I have taken pictures of the ship from the Bermuda ferries. I did not happen to have a zoom lens on but I could have and taken some close up shots with my long birder lens. 

[George C]

5 hours ago, ONECRUISER said:

Agree. Started cruising when Royal didn't even have Balcony cabins, had tiny Port Hole s for windows. But mid 90's when Vision Class with all that glass came out we quickly realized Window Washers were doing their job while ship was n Port...

Agree window washers can also surprise you , close curtain 

[island lady]

2 hours ago, George C said:

Agree window washers can also surprise you , close curtain 

 

I am guess the window washers and painters, etc. have seen it all before.  And plenty of it.  Probably numb to it by now, and have seen things that burned their eye balls.  Something they

would rather forget.  

[BillOh]

I do like the easy way youtube videos are embedded into messages in this new forum software. 

[time4u2go]

On 11/11/2018 at 10:47 AM, puppycanducruise said:

A drone outside your balcony?  Creepy!  I would call security.

They did.  Not sure what security could/would do about it.

[crbonfiber]

😂 Were you guys doin it? I would be kinda upset if I ended up on some porn sites.

[StolidCruiser]

33 minutes ago, crbonfiber said:

😂 Were you guys doin it? I would be kinda upset if I ended up on some porn sites.

 

I’d be flattered.

[Milwaukee Eight]

10 hours ago, Mikew0805 said:

That was Galveston and a Vision class ship in the posted video. 

 

Personally I have no problem with the drones. There is no expectation of privacy on a balcony of a cruise ship.

It was actually Vision according to his YouTube description. 

[PortSideCruzan]

On 11/14/2018 at 2:17 PM, gaylemh said:

 

Who was the house band in the Music Hall?  My last cruise October 27th was the Royal Swedes, but they were leaving the ship.  How is the new band and what kind of music do they play?

 

 

Hi Gayle ☺️

 

"The Switched On Band' is currently onboard Anthem. 

 

 

 

😊

[SRF]

On 11/15/2018 at 8:50 AM, Mikew0805 said:

That was Galveston and a Vision class ship in the posted video. 

 

Personally I have no problem with the drones. There is no expectation of privacy on a balcony of a cruise ship.

 

They were IN the room.

 

The drone was looking through the window.

[Biker19]

8 minutes ago, SRF said:

The drone was looking through the window.

The OP mentioned an open balcony door and I assume the curtain was also pulled back.

 

Biker, who wonders if it's possible to join the balcony club on Celebrity Edge which doesn't really have a "balcony".

[voyager70]

29 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

The OP mentioned an open balcony door and I assume the curtain was also pulled back.

 

Biker, who wonders if it's possible to join the balcony club on Celebrity Edge which doesn't really have a "balcony".

 

I was wondering about balconies on Edge.  It looked like there were none.  I don't get that

 

[Biker19]

^ I'm sure that will be hotly debated on Celebrity boards now that she is about sail.

[kochleffel]

On 11/14/2018 at 1:44 PM, ONECRUISER said:

As I said on other Drone Thread miss the days when you could Skeet Shoot off back of Royal Ships, and I'm an Expert shot...

 

Do you remember the episode of Harry's Law that opened with Harry shooting down a drone in her back yard?