Power blackout could have caused Italian cruise disaster. Not to worry. President Barry has committed to the fiat creation of a new cabinet level position that will investigate this situation and make sure that the peoples taxes are increased enough to provide for the appropriate response of giving a billion dollars to Solyndra to develop a study on how to power a boat.
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/33-jaw-dropping-photos-of-the-costa-concordia-disa
loads slow but the pix are large.
also, rated G. there are no pix of victims or accused. as far as i could tell.
http://www.space.com/14273-satellite-photo-costa-concordia-cruise-shipwreck.html
sat pic of the wreck, one can see the reef, this was also reported elsewhere today that these waters are well mapped.
capt. admits to deviating from course to salute some grand high muckity muck on shore.
Of course these waters are well mapped. How many centuries have sailors been sailing these waters? The Captain was not only a coward, but an incompetent one.
Yea he would make a great vice president for Obutthead.
Power failure? What happened, was someone trying to charge their Chevy Spark?
They turned too sharp and ran over their own extension cord....
I was thinking it was "green energy" myself.
Hamster wheel and a generator?
Nah, Ben Hur the 86th let the galley slaves on a revolt and they stopped rowing.
Bullshit, plain and simple. Asking scared passengers, who know nothing about a ship, what they think happened is asinine. The average Joe wouldn't know an explosion from a fart, or if the noise came from the hull getting ripped open.
All the senior officers should be stripped of their license and never be allowed to serve at sea again. The piece of crap that was supposed to be the Capitan should also be charged with murder for abandoning his ship before all passengers and crew were accounted for. This whole thing is a classic case of negligence, stupidity and cowardice.
I haven't been following the details of this, but as a former merchant marine officer myself, it's hard to see how this could have been anything besides an idiot asleep at the wheel or something. Even plain old cargo ships like I was on have 3 regular generators, with two running at any given time, and automatic startup of the third if one of the others kicks out. When all those fail, there's a separate emergency generator which keeps power to your main systems, such as steering and navigation. Steering always has two completely independent systems, including the separate steering engines. In my experience, changing over from port to stbd steering had to be done manually, but automatic changeover in case of failure is certainly possible. Even if they were running on a completely automated system, course changes and all, there still =should= have been a watch officer making sure everything was on course. That close in, I can't imagine that an officer didn't have steering on manual, though. Machines can fail, and computers and electronic navigation can ff you up faster than anything, but if you're doing your job as a watch officer - this kinda stuff doesn't "just happen."
If you served at sea you know as well as I do that a ship of this size does not turn on a dime so what were they doing so close to shore?
The coward who was supposed to be the Capitain is now claiming his charts didn't show the rock he hit? The Med. has been sailed and charted for thousands of years so who is this azzhole trying to kid? In his case it is time to bring back keel hauling.
Well yes, exactly. I did do a little reading up, and apparently this ship makes -or made- this run =weekly=. Sounds to me like somebody was just plain damn lackadaisical in the wheelhouse from overconfidence and was watching the bikinis on the foredeck instead of taking bearings.
Capt. and First Officer were arrested. that was on Saturday.
Also, I'm no sailor, but I can appreciate the info y'all've provided.
That said... we're y'all aware the christening champagne bottle did not break? I wonder how much influence that particular event might bring to bear on the whole shipwreck thing.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/319680/editors-picks-video-from-inside-cruise-ship-shows-chaos
i can't hear it and that's ok cuz it's from a story from pmsnbc but it's free to watch on hulu and better quality than yutub would have.
Coast Guard (interrupting, yelling): You get back on board! That is an order! There is nothing else for you to consider. You have sounded the "Abandon Ship." Now I am giving the orders. Get back on board. Is that clear? Don't you hear me?
http://news.yahoo.com/coast-guard-ordered-ship-captain-back-board-124134509.html
imo the capt. and 1st are dickless cowards.
Hmmm, GPS failure.... maybe they were trying out a LightSquared product.