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Cruise ship accident
Crown princess a brand new cruise ship left port canaveral florida on her routine cruise when she listed heavily, causing tables chairs to break and for many people injuries and 2 severly injured.
They state "a stearing gear problem" was the cause. If the list was more than about 15 degrees there is no way this is just a steering gear issue, even running at full speed with a hard right turn you couldnt roll that ship any more that 11 or 12 degrees (heck QM2 made 29 knot hard over and hit only 8 degrees). Theres something missing here, perhapse a ballast tank flooded inadvertantly? Crown princess is only 108,000 tonnes and can reach only around 22 knots (no where near the size of QM2) so i cant see how stearing gear alone can cause that and also there are stabilisers on the ship. There is something seriously wrong here what you guys think?
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