Passengers describe 'sewage running down the walls' and people acting like 'savages'

[oldhippie]

115. I don't think so .....

I had quite a chat with the Engineering Officer when I was on the Rotterdam, flagship of the Holland America Line. He told me that the main electrical generation and distribution system was separate from the propulsion engines. There are separate combined cycle gas turbine generating units for the electrical system.

The Zuiderdam, another HAL ship, has electric azipods for main propulsion. I was told that the ship has several large gas turbine electrical generating units for both ship electrical and propulsion power.

I am sure they also have some small backup systems for critical applications. I would love to see schematics and pictorials of the systems. The EO said he would have liked to give me a tour of the ship's engineering spaces, but security regulations precluded that. Too bad.