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Cruise ship captain being investigated for ignorning to help another boat in distress

I heard this on NPR today...apparently one of the cruise ship patrons sent an email to princess and they told her that the stranded boat was part of a fishing fleet and the boat asked the cruise liner to divert course to the west to avoid damaging their nets.
 
Corporate Thug said:
I heard this on NPR today...apparently one of the cruise ship patrons sent an email to princess and they told her that the stranded boat was part of a fishing fleet and the boat asked the cruise liner to divert course to the west to avoid damaging their nets.
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Wouldn't make any difference with a boat giving you a visible distress signal and no other boats in sight. You can't ignore it.
 
Brutal. All that to be on time. History has shown that being in rush on the sea usually has dire consequences. Better to be late then to end lives.
 
Meredith said they told someone at a desk they wanted to call the bridge and be sure they checked on the boat. She said the man at the desk made a call, then came back out and looked through their spotting scopes at the boat, then went back inside.

"Nothing happened," she told "GMA." "The ship didn't slow down. It didn't seem to change course. And so I went back in and asked what the captain was going to do. And he said he didn't know."

Not pacified by the encounter, Meredith returned to her room where she wrote down the ship's coordinates and sent an email to U.S Coast Guard in hopes that they would take action.
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I hope she takes solace knowing that she did everything she could do. What a bunch of fuckups.
 
Aren't there ways to purify sea water on a boat? Guessing the boat wasn't equipped with many emergency measures.
 
I'm not surprised. Those 3 didn't matter compared to paying customers that would bitch a storm if even a minute late, wasting fuel/time. Money trumps over everything with our current policies and it'll only get worse.

People so hungry that they'll kill for a dollar = never depleted and willing police force to continue this nightmare status quo.
 
God Mode said:
I'm not surprised. Those 3 didn't matter compared to paying customers that would bitch a storm if even a minute late, wasting fuel/time.
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Except it was paying customers who were trying to get the cruise to act.

Money trumps over everything with our current policies and it'll only get worse.

People so hungry that they'll kill for a dollar = never depleted and willing police force to continue this nightmare status quo.
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Oh, I see. 🙄

The crazy train is that way ------>
 
LTC8K6 said:
Wouldn't make any difference with a boat giving you a visible distress signal and no other boats in sight. You can't ignore it.
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here is the kicker: the cruise line's initial story was that the "distress signal" was actually the people of the boat thanking them of veering off course to avoid cutting the nets.
 
Corporate Thug said:
I heard this on NPR today...apparently one of the cruise ship patrons sent an email to princess and they told her that the stranded boat was part of a fishing fleet and the boat asked the cruise liner to divert course to the west to avoid damaging their nets.
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And now that they've found the fishing boat WITHOUT a functioning radio, that's clearly untrue.

Unbelievable.
 
Corporate Thug said:
here is the kicker: the cruise line's initial story was that the "distress signal" was actually the people of the boat thanking them of veering off course to avoid cutting the nets.
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I wonder how they came up with that story, since they clearly didn't actually speak to the people on the boat.
 
The carnival cruise ship captain already has his excuse, a piss poor excuse IMHO, but the international naval board that will pass judgement will not bother asking me.

As I also wonder does the entire cruise ship industry hire only captains that are especially stupid and lacking in all judgment? And is it only me that wonders, it just takes one glance at the modern style cruise ships to tell they are way too top heavy?
 
Lemon law said:
As I also wonder does the entire cruise ship industry hire only captains that are especially stupid and lacking in all judgment? And is it only me that wonders, it just takes one glance at the modern style cruise ships to tell they are way too top heavy?
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An episode of Nova came on last night that addressed both of those points. For captains, the talent pool is very light and they have none of the ongoing training that you find in the airline industry.

As for the ships themselves, a higher center of gravity reduces the amount of side-to-side sway on the ships (less sea sickness for the passengers); however, if the ships get caught in a bad spot, they sway to a more extreme angle.
 
Not sure how the cruise ship company is going to come out looking good after this. That's really, really fucked up. Thats like saying, welp, you are going to die, bye bye!
 
There are some incredibly dodgy practices in a lot of cruise lines. Their ships are all ritzy on the surface but the industry has a dark, dirty underbelly. Why do you think they're all registered in places like Liberia or Panama?
 
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