Flippin eck they were lucky

It must be on everyone's mind, how did a modern ship with no doubt every kind of GPS electronic navigation, radar, depth measuring equipment manage to run aground, they have built in warning devices  watertight bulkheads etc etc.

I'm sure many questions are being asked.

agree with past _ it  4000 + lucky people.

as an aside did you see the clip titled chinas jaw dropping cliff path ? 

its no 4 alongside sprokets link

Wonder what elf-n-safety would have to say about it 

It would be OK as long as they did a Risk Assessment ...... It's amazing what you can get away with by doing a RA.

You just conclude there is no other way of doing it and it's as safe as reasonably practicable. No Brainer really.

That picture reminds you of the Herald. (shudder) Fortunately very few fatalities reported so far; however for the families of those who died this is no consolation.  We went on a cruise a few years ago and the cruise ships are getting bigger, the docks aren't and the numbers of ships trying to dock in limited space is also increasing massively.  Perhaps with these commercial pressures, it was only a matter of time before something terrible happened.

Prayers for those involved.

melonie

Those cruise boats always look top heavy so when some water enters the hull, it is over in minutes.  Not far from where we lived there was also a similair sinking.  The captina and first mate were the first onshore "so they could direct rescuse operations"  I kid you not!   Afterwards there were that many insurance claims for video cameras that the insurers started refusingt o pay out.  In 1991 video cameras were expensive!

Good job this was not further out from land,

some survivors have been found on board the ship.......... 

Here is a string of pictures showing that they may have hit the rock afterwards.

Is it me?  I wouldn’t have thought that Surfer’s link was the best place to advertise “Greek Island Cruises”