Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 They build mega cruise ships in less time than it's taking Disney to get the riverboat back. But who knows if Disney just didn't close it and let it sit for months untouched. Bad show.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I'm coming in late on this one, but didn't someone get killed by a river boat rope/cleat thing?
Originally Posted By Labuda re #22 - that was at DIsneyland. From snopes.com: 24 December 1998: In a tragic Christmas Eve accident, one Disneyland cast member and two guests were injured (one fatally) when a rope used to secure the sailing ship Columbia as it docked on the Rivers of America tore loose the metal cleat to which it was attached. The cleat sailed through air and struck the heads of two guests who were waiting to board the ship, Luan Phi Dawson, 33, of Duvall, Washington, and his wife, Lieu Thuy Vuong, 43. Dawson was declared brain dead two days later and died when his life support system was disconnected. This accident resulted in the first guest death in Disneyland's history that was not attributable to any negligence on the part of the guest (it was the result of a combination of insufficiently rigorous ride maintenance and an insufficiently experienced supervisor's assuming an attraction operator's role) and prompted a movement for greater government oversight of theme park operations and safety procedures.
Originally Posted By tonyanton Spirit...that seems to be just what they did. The Riverboat has been sitting behind Big Thunder since it went on the refurb list and is just now being moved to the Bay Lake dry dock area for repairs.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <The Pooh playground never killed anyone. <--- ducks flying tomato.<< I beg to differ, it's slowly killing all of us
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Tis the worst kind of death, vbdad ... a slow, decaying, rotting, dumb kind.
Originally Posted By dresswhites The way is going now, did they ever do a rehab on the boat? didn't the boat start its rehab early last fall? Heck even after the Columbia incident the boat came back sooner than the Liberty Bell has. Not having been to Disney World very much, is there not a drydock onstage like at Disneyland? It would be nice to see that the boat is actually being restored and fixed.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy I'm thinking the boat got pulled most recently for rehab because it needed it for structural reasons, and not because it was scheduled. That's probably why the actual work on it didn't start quickly. And then I'm guessing they discovered more work than they anticipated. There's no drydock anywhere near the Rivers of America in WDW. (That I have seen) The closest drydock area would be backstage Magic Kingdom, which is reachable from the waters to the north and east of the Contemporary. To get from the Rivers of America to the Seven Seas Lagoon there is a water channel, but there is also a set of locks. (The Rivers of America are about 10 feet higher than Seven Seas Lagoon) Is the Riverboat is capable of navigating the locks? Good question. And even if it normally is, would it be able to with structural issues?
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Originally Posted By ssWEDguy I saw the Liberty Belle in the main WDW drydock area today. That's the first time I've seen it moved from where it's been, in the water channel directly to the west of the Rivers of America. (Behind Big Thunder) They must have moved it over there in the night one night. It has to go through Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake to get there. At least I think it's the Liberty Belle. I only saw it at a distance. And I haven't checked behind Big Thunder to see if it's gone from there.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Sorry -- no backstage pictures. I'd love to, but I like working here more. There's not much to see anyway.
Originally Posted By disney pete I thought as much steve no worries mate i was just curious as i have been to many dry docks with our boats just wondered if a disney dry dock was any different.
