May 4th Disney Wonder incident

[Bob_H]

Puerta Vallarta stop

Cherry picker fell off dock into ship

 

[pepe3penelope]

Oh, no! Hope they're able to remedy that easily!

 

[GoofyLovingFamily]

I think has already been remedied. The ship is sailing.

 

[birdmom]

Just a little Pixidust and all is well again

 

[Bsmitty]

I'm sure this is ignorant...but what's the cherry picker?

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I'm sure this is ignorant...but what's the cherry picker?

The construction vehicle that has a "basket" on the top of a crane.

Probably doing some work on the dock and got too close to the edge. Or was being used to bring in/out the gangway from dock to ship.

 

[Bsmitty]

The construction vehicle that has a "basket" on the top of a crane.

Probably doing some work on the dock and got too close to the edge. Or was being used to bring in/out the gangway from dock to ship.

Ah! Thank you for answering my silly question.

 

[truck1]

The construction vehicle that has a "basket" on the top of a crane.

Probably doing some work on the dock and got too close to the edge. Or was being used to bring in/out the gangway from dock to ship.

They also use them to clean and paint the sides of the ship.

 

[mandylovesdisney]

My friend sent these to me this morning. Crazy...

 

[dcassetta]

Thanks for the photos. I'll admit when I saw the original post I was expecting something much more extreme.

 

[mandylovesdisney]

Thanks for the photos. I'll admit when I saw the original post I was expecting something much more extreme.

Ha, ya I was too. Glad it wasn't worse though

 

[GPaLarry]

With this incident and a guy falling overboard from the Dream, I truly believe "The Force," somehow, left the DCL yesterday...of all days!!! Did Darth Vader win?

 

[Dug720]

With this incident and a guy falling overboard from the Dream, I truly believe "The Force," somehow, left the DCL yesterday...of all days!!! Did Darth Vader win?

It sounds like the guy jumped tbh.

 

[amberwc]

That's an all-terrain reach forklift. At first look, about a $70K piece of equipment. Hope they were able to recover it. Oops!

 

[Quellman]

Who made a deal with the shadow man?

 

[jrabbit]

crashed into the side of the ship and didn't even leave a scratch.

Well it probably did, but they got it painted back up pretty quick.

Few years ago on a PC transit, we FELT the Wonder hitting the side of the locks - twice Later on at a Q&A someone asked the captain about it - he said that we actually bumped into the wall FOUR Times. They (the Panama Canal Transit Authority) and some of the ships crew did a quick check of the damage - and it was fine and we proceeded to Puerta Vallarta. Our friends had an excursion there where they left by boat and the could see that the side of the ship was really scratched up. When they returned a few hours later - a fresh coat of paint had been applied and it looked brand spanking new.

This little cherry picker couldn't have done a lick of damage to the ship!

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

Few years ago on a PC transit, we FELT the Wonder hitting the side of the locks - twice Later on at a Q&A someone asked the captain about it - he said that we actually bumped into the wall FOUR Times. They (the Panama Canal Transit Authority) and some of the ships crew did a quick check of the damage - and it was fine and we proceeded to Puerta Vallarta. Our friends had an excursion there where they left by boat and the could see that the side of the ship was really scratched up. When they returned a few hours later - a fresh coat of paint had been applied and it looked brand spanking new.

That happened to the Magic when I was on the Panama Canal cruise I'm surprised they issued any payment for it as apparently the response Captain Tom got when the dragged the ship on both side through the last lock after we didn't touch any of them ws "all ships touch the walls" The next two ports we were in they were grinding the rubber marks off the ship and repainting it. According to Captain phuket when he did his post crusi talk Captain Tom wanted to throw the Panama, Canal officials off the ship or it they did leave pretty quickly once the pilot boat pulled up though.

 

[Laundress]

You can always count on someone on the Dis having the inside scoop. Photos too.

 

[Bettyscruise]

Begs the question... who picks the cherry picker?

 

[MickeyEarrings]

Begs the question... who picks the cherry picker?

As we pulled out a half hour late, we saw a big white tow truck hanging onto it!