Last voyage for Costa Concordia cruise ship

Seems obvious to me. Not airliner slides into inflatabable rafts. But... Articulated ships! ATB liners. Tug sufficient in size to accept and shelter entire complement of passengers and crew, in an emergency. Luxury quarters and playrooms on barge section. Safety refuge lounges similar to airliner cabins on tug.
Maintain traditional lifeboats and rafts as well. Redundancy, but tug and barge can separate if either is damaged or on fire. IMHO

 

Basically the vessel should sink more or less vertical and in a certain time. The problem is the extent of the theoretical damage used in the damage stability calculations as already mentioned. If the damage extent is more than calculated (which looks to be the case for COSTA CONCORDIA) then nobody knows what will happen.

Regarding life-boats, there are other evacuation means available on the market, like vertical chutes. Not much used in the cruise vessel market.

FXN

 

The problem is that ships have never been made ​​so high before.
The problem is that no one sinks vertically, maybe broken into two sections, but all revolve on one side.
The problem is that THERE IS NOT ADEQUATE SAFETY!

 

Obviously Schettino is a revolting worm....

 

Schettino has been "found out"!
Hopefully he is unique!
Wish I could trust that were true.

 

He is bait for land sharks, un "bruco sul gancio".

 

when the shark sees shettino, throws up!

 

Volevo dire avvocato.

 

vomita anche l'avvocato

 

Here is some of the information available to the crew on the bridge of a typical cruise ship. Great stuff if you are traveling in normal traffic lanes. I doubt they could react fast enough if a hazard was noted while skimming along a rocky shore.

 

My wife says even more than his legal problems, Schettino is suffering from the worlds derision. She believes he is the "mirame mirame ' type. Thinks he's handsome, debonair, and admirable. A higher creature. She says if he wasn't such a coward, he'd commit suicide.

 

Interesting/ Since I only move 8 knots, I never use LOOK AHEAD. For me trouble comes from behind

 

This is normal stuff for officers of the watch ...
They are trained for that...
The issue is that you have not to be 200 m of rocks if you are not in manoeuvring conditions as port/terminal entering...

FXN

 

I know the feeling, but I look all around anyway.