Edit: sorry my mistake for some reason i cannot edit this edit2: oh it worked, but now is all gone
OK. I've read couple of times (here and in other places) that captain (and other crew members) claimed that there were no rocks on their charts....
Me neither... but the VDR is the property of the shipping company. However, I guess that the authorities can demand revealing the data (if not for...
I think that your conclusion is the most probable one. I am almost sure that there were no thrusters in use. The complete blackout few...
Just read than of the VDR is broken and they cannot retreive data from it...
Yes, it's ECDIS chart. Or more precisely, I should say that it's an s-57 Electronic Navigational Chart (encrypted to s-63 format) released by...
NavSim published their AIS reconstruction/simluation of the Costa Concordia accident. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpjy5fvTqpI xpjy5fvTqpI...
This is a stabilizer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilizer_(ship)
Indeed, I think exactly the same way (after I saw the NavSim reconstruction (see my previous post) this what had happened). However, I'm not sure...
Well said, govt. people are breaking the law that they passed themselves. Pricks. Ask your senator if his son hasn't ever download sth from TPB...
We have one company here in Poland which analyses the Costa Concordia accident for our national TV. Here's what I've just saw on the news:...