Captain Rhone Posted June 23, 2009 #1 Share Posted June 23, 2009 For those of you who want to track Carnival Dream's every move, you can click on this link here, click the lat/long. numbers and it will give you a map and the ships last reported position and speed. http://marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?MMSI=370490000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upandadam Posted June 23, 2009 #2 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Well, looks like it floats at least. Maybe they're dumping messages in bottles overboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkcor Posted June 23, 2009 #3 Share Posted June 23, 2009 nice, thanks for the fun link :) sure looks like they're testin' her out - look at that hard turn, tight loop, then what looks like an all stop and about face there at the end: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkcor Posted June 23, 2009 #4 Share Posted June 23, 2009 looks like they're testing the thrusters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amerikaner83 Posted June 23, 2009 #5 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Either that... Or perhaps the captain is attempting to do the aquatic version of sky writing... :) Ok so question on the propulsion system on the dream... Why does she not have the azipods that other carnival ships do? Thought the whole benefit to those was the increased maneuverability? Looking at pics of the dream on carnival's site looks like she's got the twin screws- no pods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upandadam Posted June 23, 2009 #6 Share Posted June 23, 2009 looks like they're testing the thrusters? Looks like the Captain could use a designated river. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchpam Posted June 23, 2009 #7 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Looks like the Captain could use a designated river. I assume you mean driver? He would surely have trouble in a river! Those lines don't mean much to me....I want to see pictures.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkcor Posted June 24, 2009 #8 Share Posted June 24, 2009 i think they might be heading back to port... getting late in europe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkcor Posted June 24, 2009 #9 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Looks like the Captain could use a designated river. lol, perhaps. poor ship, they've been rough on her today :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkcor Posted June 24, 2009 #10 Share Posted June 24, 2009 apparently, she's going 19.7kn right now - nice: she just buzzed venice, italy: and now onward toward the coast of croatia, right now: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkcor Posted June 24, 2009 #11 Share Posted June 24, 2009 dream, heading toward trieste at 18.9kn: notice the abrupt stop, starboard turn and half loop. at 5.45am. kudos carnival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkcor Posted June 24, 2009 #12 Share Posted June 24, 2009 current location: at all of 0.9kn, turning.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Rhone Posted June 25, 2009 Author #13 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I found this video that someone took from their boat. I wish I could have been there... By the way, I noticed that John Heald posted a few pics of the Dream taken yesterday at the Trieste dry dock on yesterday's blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkcor Posted June 25, 2009 #14 Share Posted June 25, 2009 wow, that's great! it looked like dream was going to run in to them for a minute there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnjcruiser Posted June 25, 2009 #15 Share Posted June 25, 2009 For those of you who want to track Carnival Dream's every move, you can click on this link here, click the lat/long. numbers and it will give you a map and the ships last reported position and speed. http://marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?MMSI=370490000 Looks like a cool link and web site. I can't seem to get it to work with the ship CARNIVAL FANTASY? Is there some trick I need to know about to track other ships? :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Rhone Posted June 25, 2009 Author #16 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I used to have problems too...until I figured out the pickyness of it. When searching for a ship, click on the dark blue 'vessels' tab on top, then click 'search all' in the light blue section and then finally you can type the name of the ship in the search box at left. That is the way I have found to always get it to work right. Its something to do with the automatic 'currently in range' thing when you first get to the 'vessel' search section, which is dumb. Anyway, Carnival Fantasy: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?MMSI=353486000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolaAlive Posted June 25, 2009 #17 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I used to have problems too...until I figured out the pickyness of it. When searching for a ship, click on the dark blue 'vessels' tab on top, then click 'search all' in the light blue section and then finally you can type the name of the ship in the search box at left. That is the way I have found to always get it to work right. Its something to do with the automatic 'currently in range' thing when you first get to the 'vessel' search section, which is dumb. Anyway, Carnival Fantasy: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?MMSI=353486000 Not too cool how they stole my Fantasy picture. :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolaAlive Posted June 25, 2009 #18 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Better - I uploaded the original - now to get the other removed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconfan Posted June 25, 2009 #19 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Either that... Or perhaps the captain is attempting to do the aquatic version of sky writing... :) Ok so question on the propulsion system on the dream... Why does she not have the azipods that other carnival ships do? Thought the whole benefit to those was the increased maneuverability? Looking at pics of the dream on carnival's site looks like she's got the twin screws- no pods. I remember reading somewhere that the larger ships are much harder on the Azipod systems, they tend to wear out the bearings that mount the pod to the ship. I'll see if I can find a link. http://www.marinelink.com/Story/Podded+Propulsion+Goes+Beyond+the+Cruise+Realm-5906.html Excerpt: "Carnival, gave podded propulsion its start in the cruise ship domain with the commissioning of the Elation and Paradise in 1998, sparking broader industry uptake of the concept. Subsequent problems experienced with the systems, which led to an out-of-court settlement between ABB Azipod and Carnival at the end of last year, prompted certain design modifications." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolaAlive Posted June 25, 2009 #20 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Carnival Destiny design begat lot of Carnival ships - Destiny Class, Conquest Class, Splendor and now Dream. Destiny wasn't designed with Azipods in mind but works. Why mess with something that works? Also, these ships are built in Italy - not in Finland (or Sweden). Azipods are not without issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurab23 Posted June 25, 2009 #21 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Nice video.Can't wait to be on her in Nov. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Klev Posted June 25, 2009 #22 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Can anyone here translate Italian? I tried, and this is what I came up with: "Wow, look at that boat! It's big and pretty. And it's getting closer to us! Dad! Dad! Dad! Move the boat! Quickly! Dad! Get out of the way! Is anyone listening to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w8ing2cruz Posted June 26, 2009 #23 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Thats hilareous - and here I thought she was speaking French! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnjcruiser Posted June 27, 2009 #24 Share Posted June 27, 2009 I used to have problems too...until I figured out the pickyness of it. When searching for a ship, click on the dark blue 'vessels' tab on top, then click 'search all' in the light blue section and then finally you can type the name of the ship in the search box at left. That is the way I have found to always get it to work right. Its something to do with the automatic 'currently in range' thing when you first get to the 'vessel' search section, which is dumb. Anyway, Carnival Fantasy: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?MMSI=353486000 Thanks a lot! This is neat! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthGrady Posted June 27, 2009 #25 Share Posted June 27, 2009 Either that... Or perhaps the captain is attempting to do the aquatic version of sky writing... :) Ok so question on the propulsion system on the dream... Why does she not have the azipods that other carnival ships do? Thought the whole benefit to those was the increased maneuverability? Looking at pics of the dream on carnival's site looks like she's got the twin screws- no pods. Not all Carnival ships have AziPods, in fact only a few do. The last two of the Fantasy class got them (Elation and Paradise), as did all of the Spirit class. Other than those six, the rest all have standard twin screw/rudder design with bow and stern thrusters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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