Nothing on the Italian cruise ship, then?
Worn Old Motorbike wrote:
Has everything to do with this topic... a proper ship would not have capsized as quickly as this top-heavy monstrosity; regardless of whether the captain was a coward or a hero. The death toll may well have been zero.
Worn Old Motorbike wrote:
trimster wrote:
Not a bad tirade, but what's it to do with this? Whether they look seaworthy or like apartments or that people like to make money is neither here nor there. This ship was crashed into a rock by a hot-dogging captain who then waited almost an hour before following procedures and then abandoning ship. No amount of good design is going to mitigate for all of that.
Jimbags wrote:
Yeah, they don't look seaworthy. Same with those modern cargo vessels that stack towering piles of containers on their decks.
What has happened to those thousands of years worth of knowledge of the sea and ship design, so painfully acquired by mankind? Abandoned, along with common sense, in the pursuit of the almighty dollar.
These new giant cruise ships look damn ugly. Floating apartment buildings.
What has happened to those thousands of years worth of knowledge of the sea and ship design, so painfully acquired by mankind? Abandoned, along with common sense, in the pursuit of the almighty dollar.
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