Bearing failure on an Azipod propulsion unit left 154,400 tonne liner running on her remaining two pods - but she never missed a port of call Bearing up: Independence of the Seas sailed for three years with one of her three propulsion units out of action Cruise ship Independence of the Seas was operating on only two out its three propellers for much of the four years she spent sailing from Southampton, it has been revealed. A bearing failure on one of its three Azipod propulsion units left the 3,600-passenger vessel dependent on the remaining two pods - electric motors attached to the outside of the hull replacing conventional shaft-driven propellers.
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