Boat Capsize Evidence

Quoted from Tim B post

It's a good point. Perhaps I saw it to narrowly.
Cheers
Daniel

 

Might been King Cruiser.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlS263wnQFc

 

No, nice vid tho. That was a nice boat - I wonder what happened.

 

Hit to Anemone reef.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Cruiser_wreck

 

I'm sorry that the lady got a broken back but something strikes me as hilarious about "...limiting its seaworthiness to a further thousand metres."

 

I saw the same thing Maybe it was sea worthy untill it sank.

 

I was in similar situation, but the 'ferry' was also carrying steel extrusions on the upper deck...

But now one can take new catamaran ferry there - our design

 

i can send the pictures and spec of the boat, by personal mail if any one is able to help me.

 

5 pages of discussion & not a photo/drawing of the boat?
Even with the specs you've given, Sachi, I think you're asking a bit much from any of these gifted designers/engineers. Put up some photos!

 

Alik, let's see the pic of the ferry. I just looked at your page - not all my cup of tea but very nice! I could use that 16.6 crew, I'll tell ya'

 

Again, I'll stand on my previous post about the area of the world this has occurred in. When they start valuing human lives more then that of their trusted ox or horse and women/children as chattel, then maybe they'll begin to wake up and insist on some controls and regulations. I can think of few places in the world where you'd be less likely to "get screwed" in some way or another, with absolutely no recourse of any kind. Eventually, they'll catch up with just 20th century concerns, let alone 21st, though many will have to die in the mean time and it will probably be the 22nd century by then.

 

Paul,

do not forget, they have the year 1430 now!!!! We have already 2009.
So, just 600 years of patience, and they will be at a proper, civilized standard.

Regards
Richard

and do´nt tell me anybody I´m wrong, please. I live and work with this human crap.

 

Yea, but the world's going to end in a year or two, so . . .

 

80 people on 14x4 metres? one meter draft? seems a little crowded!

 

Eighty people on a 14 x 4 meter boat is an absurdity. When the boat is a double decker, the notion is beyond absurdity. Metacentric heights and all that jazz coupled with moving cargo that can not be secured is the height of reckless endangerment.

Aside from recklessness: When the capsize occurred was the boat moving? if it was moving, how fast was it going and what was the radius of the turn ? How high is the top deck above the waterline?