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If anyone wants an account of a person who was on the lake when the Fitzgerald sank, I recommend you check out the book: "The Night the Fitz Went Down" as it does exactly that.
Casual Navigation could you do a video please on why only small speed boats and some passengers ferry are catamarans and why no big crude oil tankers are catamarans even though catamaran are usually faster
9:39 This is something like what the NTSB report concluded, right? They thought one or more of the hatch covers straight-up collapsed from the stress, rather than the vessel flooding slowly through insecure hatch covers.
Let me guess, the captain of the Atlantica at the time was Francesco Schettino, wasnt it? Before the Concordia disaster, he captained the Atlantica and accidentally rammed it into a harbor. Today, the Atlantica is renamed the Islander and will be doing cruises in the Caribbean.
What I caught happening twice on the Maasdam: the hydrostatic release lock lever at the main control for bent, so that the entire hydrostatic release mechanism was basically not functioning at all. This didn't get picked up by my colleagues, but did present quite the danger. So here my kind request: Please pay attention to this one!
nah hatches don't need to be involved at all. very large swells can severely damage or even snap a ship like that completely in half. you still have a lot to learn.
We've all known it was there, the heavy ordnance is safe,it's in the ship and has no primers and therefore is as safe as houses, the big problem is the large amount of smaller incendiary devices and fuses that are stored on the deck above them, the ships structure is slowly rotting and rusting away,if the deck above were to give way and the incendiary devices and fuses were to fall onto the larger ordinance and explode 😲🔥🔥💥💥💨💨Ka booom Good night Sheerness Harbour
It would of been really cool if at the end of the video you had the sub launch torpedoes at all the other ships! That would of made for a funny animation. 😜
my biggest take away from this is how broken logistics and shit is. how is it more economical to send a load of coal 75% of the way around the world instead of just getting it from your neighbor, Russia?
