This Italian Carnival cruise ship incident does not fill me with confidence…in fact it smacks of Titanic, although on a much smaller scale.
While I can understand a ship hitting an iceberg in 1912 at night, I think 100 years later, given GPS and advanced radar, no ship has any excuse to go off course or hit any stationary object. Sorry. That’s just stupidity, or gross negligence, or perhaps both.
The poor performance of the captain, who abandoned the ship and had to be ordered back, the late evacuation order, complete chaos, nobody speaking the same language, it all adds up to the fact that we’ve not come very far in the last 100 years with respect to safety.
Modern ships have enough life boats for all the passengers, but that only helps if you use them.
They got lucky here, this could have been much, much worse.
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