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Old February 26th, 2012, 11:42 AM posted to rec.travel.cruises
Kurt Ullman
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Default Did any of you also watch The Italian Ship Disaster on Nationa...

In article ,
(Jeff Gersten) wrote:

There was also an interesting discussion of how many, many more lives
would have been lost if the wind was blowing in a different direction
and had not blown the ship back towards the shore.


That was an interesting part to me since the original news reports
indicated that about the only thing the Capt did right was to guide the
ship back to the rocks so people could get off and swim if needed. Seems
like even that wasn't the case and he messed up pretty much from one end
to the other.

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