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It's swinging more and more against the captain...I still don't like the why this has been handled though. Carnival have shown themselves to have no willingness to support their employees. If I were working for them I'm be seriously considering moving to another company because the way they immediately offered the captain up as a sacrificial goat indicates that they have something to hide too...be it a lack of proper employee training, a lack of protocol enforcement on their vessels (the fact that more of the crew on the ship were entertainers instead of actual ship crew), a lack of safety awareness and general corner-cutting to try and save money and gain profit.
Basically, what most companies do but get away with until something goes wrong. Then again, these days, there's very little loyalty from companies to their staff, and that's a sad thing. But yes, it's not looking good for the captain, I will admit that. |
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As we are talking much about captain's performance here I want to make a little bit off topic comment here.
I really respect captains' of those cruiseferries travelling in northern Baltic Sea. I have read many accident investigation reports on those accidents and performance after accident have been exceptional in all cases taking into account what information they had when making decisions. So if there happens to be any of them reading: thank you all very much. :salute: |
As I wrote before, it's not the first time a captain disembark from his ship. The text below is from the Danish wiki
The night of the 7th April was the ferry (Scandinavian Star) in the Skagerrak, as there around noon. 00:50 fire broke /(Have shorten it) At 03.28 Captain Hugo Larsen announced that he could no longer be on board and assured the captain of Stena Saga that everyone was rescued, although there were still more than 40 survivors back at this time. This announcement also meant that at first not smoke divers were sent to the burning ship, although there were still many survivors back on board. He was heavily criticized for this and probably also fired Markus |
So now the head of the RINA department which certified the vessel and route has resigned.
I wonder when the board of Carnival will put their hands up to their mistakes? Silly question really. Enrico Scerni who resigned said everyone knew cruise vessels routinely "take a bow" at Giglio |
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perhapse it will come out in the wash, the guy is experianced but what id like to know was he in manual control or on auto pilot?
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picture seems to be: 1) captain is a reckless kinda guy 2) Carnival sanctioned dangerous maneuvers which absolves captain from the blame 3) Captain actually saved the ship VERY well considering the damage it probably took from hitting a reef at +20knots 4) Captain was not last to leave but why it was we don't know - either he needed to coordinate from outside the ship, or he ran away (a brave maneuver to save the ship first, then total panic... who knows). From the link, here's the ship maneuver - is it done by a total coward? http://www.odin.tc/pics/costaconcordia10.jpg This resource is in russian language, but with google translate you'll find it's an interesting one: http://www.odin.tc/newsru/read.asp?articleID=139 |
A small extract from young Buna outlining a couple of the procedures that are being taken by cruise liners now (hopefully every one).
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This situation just is a no-win. On one hand they have to recover the bodies, and many are still missing. On the other, there is a possible environmental catasrophe waiting around the corner, and they can't do anything about it until the ship has been completely searched.
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