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Oops, Italian Maritime Version
Jan. 16th, 2012 10:02 amSo, I've been watching over the weekend the grounding and sinking of the Costa Concordia. Other than a certain professional interest as an ex-Navy man, I have little to add to the discussion. I note that the current story for the grounding is that the ship's Master was showboating. Looking at the pictures, he was clearly way too close to the coast.
I was curious about how the ship was holed to port yet is listing to starboard. Per the Canadian National Post, the vessel struck a rock and drifted aground (see the sidebar in that article). So the angle you see her at is the angle of the bottom. I'm also puzzled by the (apparent) poor response of the crew to the emergency. On my one civilian cruise, on a Carnival ship (owned by the same company) the lifeboat drill was done early and taken very seriously. Not so on Concordia.
Lastly, the Chicago Tribune put up a list of peacetime ship accidents and completely forgot a disaster in their own back yard (literally, within sight of the Trib building), that of the S. S. Eastland.
I was curious about how the ship was holed to port yet is listing to starboard. Per the Canadian National Post, the vessel struck a rock and drifted aground (see the sidebar in that article). So the angle you see her at is the angle of the bottom. I'm also puzzled by the (apparent) poor response of the crew to the emergency. On my one civilian cruise, on a Carnival ship (owned by the same company) the lifeboat drill was done early and taken very seriously. Not so on Concordia.
Lastly, the Chicago Tribune put up a list of peacetime ship accidents and completely forgot a disaster in their own back yard (literally, within sight of the Trib building), that of the S. S. Eastland.
