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Re: Huge cruise ship runs aground off Italy
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2012 Jan 14, 16:11 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2012 Jan 14, 16:11 -0800
Alan, you wrote:
"it appears that some people or some person was/were not paying the degree of attention to things that they should have been."
The phrase "situational awareness" is bound to come up. I can imagine the captain and bridge officers focusing their attention on some minor problem with the thrusters, steadily pushing the vessel towards the coast...
-FER
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