Delta Queen Safety Tour

An overview of the steamboat Delta Queen's safety equipment and crew training.

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• Queen
• safety
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[MicheleSvedrofsky]

This is an excellent video - informative and educational. After viewing this, anyone (that means you, Congress) doubting the safety of the Delta Queen would be highly suspect for having self-serving, ulterior political motives regarding the extension of her SOLAS exemption. Congress, we're on to you, and we're watching how you vote. Simply put: you vote to extend her exemption, we vote for you. You vote against her exemption, we vote against you.

[alb2040]

Actuarial societies and firefighters know that wood lasts longer in fires than steel and other metals. In the event of a fire on the Delta Queen the crew will have time to fight the fire. Even the Coast Guard knows this.

[divisioneight]

You're probably safer from fire on this vessel than on the big Clorox bottle ocean-going liners. C'mon folks - let's grow a pair and make this happen!

[baritonebynight]

Save the Queen! She is safe and this is America where I should be able to choose which boat to ride. I hope Represenative Oberstar's political career is ruiner over this. Thank you Senator Vonovitch and Senator Brown of my home state of Ohio in supporting the Queen. She will survive this.....Oberstar's reputation will not. Oh if he were my grandpa I'd send him to the worst nuring home I could find......

[gocubsgo32]

I spent 3 years working on the Queens. I never once was concerned for my safety. The permit needs to be issued. If not, a lot of jobs, history and future memories will be lost. So good to see PT in the last video! It is people like him that make this cause so worthwhile.

Jamie (Kilb) MorrisPease

[WA4141StmrDQ]

It was a long, long time ago and a good time was had by all. It saddens my heart to think I may never dance to the band again and be thrilled at the sounds of the calliope playing. Working on the boat is my answer when people ask "what would you do over, if you could?". Sunning on the gang plank, hanging out on the fantail, sipping cocktails with my friends and the pure joy of getting up the next morning and doing it all again. How lucky we, and all the crew since then, have been. Save herplease

[cdickmeyer1]

Again, And the issue "IS?" WAKE UP CONGRESS...Please...everyone was born with common sense.  It's way time to use it.

Christopher

[krazyforrw]

And of course, I gotta add...The Delta Queen crew is the very best there is, true friends, quite a bunch of them we actually consider our family. Makes sense as we consider the "Legendary One" our second home. Deb and I love you guys with all our hearts and sincerely hope that we will "see you on the rivers"...Very, very sad, and this stupidity and congressional greed makes us very angry and totally flabbergasted toward our government.

Godspeed, Delta Queen...

[krazyforrw]

As said before: When we travel to board the Delta Queen, we sleep that night in our sprinkler challenged, two smoke detector, no night watchman or live in fire crew, totally wood framed house. We travel an hour in rush hour traffic. Onto two planes, non-sprinklered of course, then take a bus again in rush hour traffic to get to the wharf. That night we sleep on the Delta Queen with her sprinklers, smoke detectors, fire hoses, watchman and trained crew. Where do you think we were the safest?

[patsi1936]

Excellent film. We have been on the Delta Queen many times and have participated in the drills, also have heard the people patrolling the decks at night. There is absolutely no reason to take her off the rivers. We Love her and hopefully we can keep her going. The Mickelsens

[TVRM610]

Please Save the Delta Queen.

[karenbd10]

Seriously, what do we have to do for the politicians to support this? It's SO simple. The boat is safe. The boat is a piece of this country's history, and has earned the right to keep running the river. Keeping the boat running on the river isn't going to cost the policians or their employee's -us!!!- ANY money. Least expensive, most simple thing they are likely to accomplish in their political careers!