Last voyage for Costa Concordia cruise ship

OK, I'll spell it out.
You dish out stereotypes but get uncomfortable when they come your way. Capiche?

 

"You must spread some reputation around before giving it to Milehog again."

Well, I tried.

 

Michael,
If you don't like guns, you don't have to own one. But please don't post erroneous statistics like "ASRTONOMICAL" gun deaths.

http://www.disastercenter.com/cdc/A...113 selected causes by race and sex 2005.html

gun homicide 4.2 per 100,000 population

fatal automobile crash 15.2 per 100k pop

hiv 4.2 per 100k pop

death by doctor error, 3rd after heart attack and cancer
http://www.naturodoc.com/library/public_health/doctors_cause_death.htm

Doctors are more dangerous than guns, HIV and car accidents put together.

thanks for maintaining objectivity.

 

Very interesting post here:

http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/st...eg-list-really-scary-41331-14.html#post527429

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One question is: Why did the Costa Concordia, after surviving first contact incident, lose more buoyancy and trim more on stern?
Grounding aft? No, the grounding took place (if it took place?) 1 hr after first incident and, due vessel's shape, bottom of compartments aft (above props) will not touch bottom. I think any contact vessel/shore was midship.
Open watertight door's between engine rooms/store rooms aft causing progressive flooding? I think yes!
Many big, diesel electric, luxury cruise liners built after 2000 have really stupidly arranged sterns with store rooms in three compartments on two decks connected by watertight doors (not as per SOLAS!) ... and also allowing entry inte the engine room (for spare parts, maintenance, etc.?).
Actually the whole hull fwd engine rooms is also stupidly arranged with crew cabins on two decks in 8-10 watertight compartments with doors in every bulkhead. Such ships are not SOLAS and unseaworthy at any instance.
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I find it interesting that when hosting guests at our family's "ranch" in Central Texas, the ones who are visiting from other countries like the UK, Germany, France and Russia can't wait get out and fire some guns. They seem to find them fascinating.

Back to ship design, I would hope that there will be many changes to new vessels coming off the drawing boards from now on, due to the lessons learned from the Costa Concordia disaster.

 

I see Michael's point -- and it would have been better if the "T" in "the captain" was capitalized. That's the way I read in either case. Jokes are inevitable.

 

I succeeded.

 

There's worse where I live. Goverment mandated length restrictions = obscene growth in the other two dimensions.

 

The proportions of these rule beaters remind of the miniature 10 foot ocean going sailboats we see.

 

the findings from the ships black box have been released,just before the crash the captain is clearly heard saying,

its time to put a reef in

 

Last week a pair of JUMBO tugs made a port call, spent the night, then steamed EAST. Perhaps some Concordia action is happening soon ?

 

There is a new video - the minutes after the first incident:

http://news.discovery.com/human/video-concordia-captain-120211.html

 

Beginning to de-fuel the wrecked vessel:

http://www.stern.de/panorama/costa-...p;utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=sternde

(german)

 

There is supposed to be a documentary by National Geographic on the Concordia. It was flashed on TV yesterday but missed it today. Anybody got a link?

 

It was posted on one of the other two Concordia threads with some interesting comments.

-Tom