Pride of America breaks moorings, takes short, unscheduled trip

The Maui News reports that Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of America busted loose Monday from her pier in Kahului, Maui, and had to suffer the indignity of being pushed back to the dock by a tugboat. While nobody and nothing was injured, the mishap could have ended quite badly.

Besides the tremendous force of mooring lines snapping, the ship's gangway was pulled away along with the ship, thankfully with nobody on it. The unscheduled jaunt took about 90 minutes before the ship was safely tied up again. The coincidental lack of other ships in the area is credited with sparing any ship-to-ship fender-benders.