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Re: A credible AIS track for the Costa Concordia
From: James N Wilson
Date: 2012 Jan 24, 08:08 -0800
From: James N Wilson
Date: 2012 Jan 24, 08:08 -0800
On our recent Black Sea Cruise, the Odyssey Clipper had a
forward looking sonar, giving an underwater picture of what's ahead of the
bow (at left in attachment). That was a small 110 passenger ship, and it seems
that one forty times that size could afford such.
Jim Wilson
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I think the story that has come together is a fairly simple one. The
captain was navigating visually. He knew the area well and had made close passes
before. He turned too late and hit the outer edge of the reef. The rest is
history, and it's just amazingly lucky that the loss of life was not vastly
greater. But how can one individual, fallible as all mortals, be the sole cause
of this? Were there no other officers monitoring the vessel's position? Were
there no automated systems warning of dangerously shallow water? Where was the
backup to this fallible individual??
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