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Onno
First Class Passenger
Member # 3071

posted 12-18-2003 06:01 PM

Just saw this picture at Simplon Postcards, isn’t that a great and different way to see cruise ships!
Does anyone know of other interesting and out of the ordinary ways where you can see ships.

Best, Onno

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 12-18-2003 06:28 PM

Nice photo. Rob has some taken from the cable car in Barcelona on his site. It wasn't running due to strong winds when I was last there

The bridge in Vancouver too? Barryboat has some in a gallery taken from a paragliding trip IIRC.
Pam

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phil_a
First Class Passenger
Member # 3679

posted 12-19-2003 06:50 AM

hey onno-

heres a picture taken a few years back on our cruise to singapore
(actually taken from the cable car also- tho unfortuneatly not as good quality as the shot you found)

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Onno
First Class Passenger
Member # 3071

posted 12-19-2003 09:54 AM

Thanks for sharing your picture Phil.

Actually amazing how small the ships look seen from above while they look “huge” when you are standing on the dock side. Maybe in the future there will be cable cars on the mega ships themselves.

Best, Onno

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sslewis
First Class Passenger
Member # 3649

posted 12-19-2003 01:17 PM

That would be a great idea Onno!
i have always wished this whilst cruising!
The sad thing about being aon a cruise is that you don't see much of the ship's exteriors!
I actually took a picture of Regent Star in Montego Bay from the paraglider with my Nikkon camera.
None survived due to rough landing!
However, I wonder if any pics were taken from the Verazzano bridge in NY? Or Sydney?
I used to steam under the later one on ssSky Princess and wondered..
ssLewis, looking for that early arrival shot in Tauranga

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Cambodge
First Class Passenger
Member # 906

posted 12-23-2003 09:40 AM

I have a photo somewhere, which I shall post when I find it, of, what is to me a great example of how small even great ships look from afar.

It is of outbound illuminated QE2, at dusk, as taken from the "Windows on the World" resturant at the 110-story level of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

It was not very good, thick windows and all, but it, of course is of special significance now.

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Onno
First Class Passenger
Member # 3071

posted 12-23-2003 07:48 PM

Is it actually possible to photograph from Verazzano bridge? (okay without making a turmoil)

Cambodge, your QE2 story reminds me of a picture I took of the QE2 which I made with my zoom lens at it’s maximum zoom. The picture it self is not that good but by zooming at that distance almost cleared all perspective which has the result that her funnel looks huge!

Best, Onno

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bmajor
First Class Passenger
Member # 1754

posted 12-23-2003 10:38 PM

With the photo of the Cable Way in Singapore,from Sentosa Island over to Singapore,
I seem to recall that many years ago it was involved in an accident,
when a ships mast hit the wire and left cars dangling above the harbour.....
Does any else recall this incident?

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gohaze
First Class Passenger
Member # 586

posted 12-23-2003 10:49 PM

Jan. 30, 1983: Two cable cars plunge 200 feet into the sea after an oil rig mounted on a ship hit the steel cables of the overhead system linking Singapore with the resort island Sentosa. Seven people die.

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bmajor
First Class Passenger
Member # 1754

posted 12-23-2003 11:58 PM

Thank you Gohaze,

I remember Media coverage,
but could not recall the exact events.
Seem to recall many heroic events from that day as cars that where hanging on the wire ,
were saved ,
by people climbing out and lowering themselves,
and others to saftey.

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JP
First Class Passenger
Member # 1373

posted 12-25-2003 10:33 AM

I couldn't resist adding my Sentosa cable car ship picture (from March 1998):

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