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Old January 17th, 2012, 11:59 AM posted to rec.travel.cruises
Kurt Ullman
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Default Costa Concordia taking on water off of Italy

In article ,
Charles wrote:

In article , Tom K
wrote:

To me, that damage doesn't look major.

Given the SOLAS requirement, that ship shouldn't have sank.


The damage is major. I don't see how you can look at the pictures
available and see otherwise.

As far as SOLAS...no ship is unsinkable. You can't write a regulation
that will prevent a ship from sinking. What they are requiring is that
the ship stay afloat long enough to evacuate the passengers and crew.


And if they hadn't screwed around for an hour or so before starting
evacuation, they might have been able to do that. Even as it sits, a
completely botched response and yet the worst the death toll can be is
~40 out of 4000+.

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