QE2's 1992 Martha's Vineyard Grounding

[Rob Lightbody]

[Chris Thompson]

Very interesting video!
On my first ship, Ocean Princess, we did a Christmas Cruise up the Amazon.
Every now and then we would hear big thumping sounds from below!
This was due to large chunks of river bottom being sucked upward and hitting the hull.
Bit unnerving but we didn't run aground...on that trip at least.

[Chris]

I also noticed this video. His videos are very good. As soon as I saw the QE2’s profile on the thumbnail I clicked straight away. An interesting explainer indeed!!

[Thomas Hypher]

I also noticed this video. His videos are very good. As soon as I saw the QE2’s profile on the thumbnail I clicked straight away. An interesting explainer indeed!!

I did the same! Casual Navigation does a great job of bringing some of what we learn about as deck officer cadets to the masses. He's a qualified deck officer too I believe.

[Lynda Bradford]

There is an incredible amount of information on this topic about the 1992 Martha Vineyard grounding.  Louis de Sousa had posted this picture of the ship in the dry dock. Louis if you are still visiting the forum it would be good to learn more about your memories of    the opportunity to get this picture. 

Chris Thompson had also posted this image of a newspaper cutting that he had kept.