{"id":6688,"date":"2012-12-21T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2019-09-26T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T13:10:45","slug":"a-bridge-too-far-viking-odin-two-inches-too-tall-will-she-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/2012\/12\/a-bridge-too-far-viking-odin-two-inches-too-tall-will-she-make-it\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bridge Too Far: Viking Odin Two Inches Too Tall, Will She Make It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32569\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Low-Bridge.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32569\" alt=\"River Cruises In Europe\" src=\"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Low-Bridge-640x426.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bridge too low. Seasonal high water and low bridges on the Danube combine to make navigation challenging. \u00a9 2012 Ralph Grizzle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At 8 p.m. last night, Viking Odin began to proceed upriver from Deggendorf, Germany, toward the Main-Danube Canal. We were running behind schedule thanks to Mother Nature. Rainfall and melting snow had raised the Danube&#8217;s water levels, creating navigational challenges.<\/p>\n<p>At around 10 p.m., we arrived at a bridge that was 5cm (roughly 2 inches) too low for us to pass under &#8211; or more accurately, high water volume from the melting snow and rain had raised the water levels so that Viking Odin was 5cm too tall to pass under the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The captain and crew did all that they could do to lower the height of the ship above the waterline &#8211; filled the vessel with fuel and water, topped off the ballasts, immersing the underbelly of Viking Odin 2 meters (just over six feet) below the waterline.<\/p>\n<p>The last report indicated that the water level was receding. As of 2 a.m. and several attempts, we were unable to pass. Would we make it under the bridge and to Nuremberg for perhaps the best Christmas Market yet? Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 8 p.m. last night, Viking Odin began to proceed upriver from Deggendorf, Germany, toward the Main-Danube Canal. We were running behind schedule thanks to Mother Nature. Rainfall and melting snow had raised the Danube&#8217;s water levels, creating navigational challenges. At around 10 p.m., we arrived at a bridge that was 5cm (roughly 2 inches) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,270,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}