M/S Costa Concordia and Port State Control M/S Costa Concordia was port state controlled seven times prior the incident: Lisbon 060719, Limassol...
The Princess Kaguya concept is quite good, i.e. the public is invited to visit the floating shopping mall (and spend money aboard) while the...
With today's technology it is very easy for the Master to call the ship owner ashore direct and discuss problems ... and what decisions to make....
@seewolfbarney Shipping companies are supposed to have an ISM system in place where responsibilities of persons/crew ashore/aboard and procedures...
Starbuck1, The number 1 duty of the Master (of a cruise ship) is to ensure that the passengers (that pay for everything) are happy during the...
Below is side view of M/S Estonia. [IMG] Blue is the watertight hull with 11 bulkheads between AP bhd and FP bhd (in which there are 22 w/t...
A roro-deck is generally the open bulkhead deck of the hull of the ferry or a deck inside or on top of the superstructure of the ferry not...
Can you remember a link about this ... Ro-Ro deck in operational condition was below water line? :)
Hm, why interrupt dinner with a nice girl for a routine (stupid) fly bye of a small island ordered by ... whom?:rolleyes:
Well, the Master can sleep in his bed room because navigation is the responsibility of other officers on the ship ... that are awake. Team work,...
It is quite depressing to read what media reports about the Costa Concordia incident, e.g. that the Master was running the ship from the dining...
Example of using stability calculations to find out what happened: http://heiwaco.tripod.com/epunkt217.htm And also an example what an...
It is quite simple. A vessel will survive multiple compartments up-flooding as long as the bulkhead deck is above water, buoyancy/stability...
I doubt very much the 'screen shots' are from Costa Concordia. Ships are not built with hinged w/t doors as shown in the hull or in the...
Before any ship sinks it must lose buoyancy by up-flooding of watertight hull compartments, progressive flooding of watertight hull compartments...
Suggest you renumber the decks 1 to 17 (as per SOLAS).
Regardless - abt 4 100 persons were, we are told, evacuated before capsize using ship's LSA and another abt 100 that stayed up top could later,...
Progressive flooding does not place through sounding pipes, which are always closed, and hardly through vent pipes (as they are small dia, but we...
According SOLAS/international nomenclature tank top (of double bottom) is deck #1 - so Solas Deck# 1 = Costa Concordia deck C Solas Deck# 2 =...
I am happy to see that progressive flooding through watertight (WT) doors aft is discussed as being a (the proximate?) cause of the following...
