MV Rena is our disaster but let's be rational we got off very light in many ways. Don't get me wrong I want the blame and costs sent back to the owners but no one died in human terms and while I regret the bird and marine deaths they were minimal.
Costa Concordia is yet another fuck up and one that should concern us all. 40000 passengers it would seem were foolishly endangered so a
waiter could wave to his family who couldn't have seen him anyway. The Master has been and should have been arrested and charged.
I occasional conn ( Drive ) a commercial boat. I love it and yet dread it at the same time because I am so scared of fucking up. I will not drink if I am driving a car and I extend that to boats, with that in mind what the hell was the skipper thinking.
Yeah I know the ship was holed further out and he went to shore but claims that the rocks weren't charted sound like shit to me in fact I suspect they have been charted well before Astrolabe reef in NZ.
The ship is fucked. It will be cut up but 29 people are dead and that raises an issue about ship design and cruise ship tourism.
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