I've been on some of these ships to and from Greece/Italy/ Albania..enough said. It's a calculated risk every time, or at least it was a few years ago.
That's the kind of failure one would expect a safety inspection to have kept it in port for; there would have been at least one main safety valve after that point which must have either been disabled or failed.
If they didn't have a plan to dump sewage secretly out the bottom this wouldn't happen. All through hull outlets should be above waterline but they don't want to see the sewage so they dump it underwater. What good are bulkheads if pipes allow water inside?
Two things wrong with this, One: There was not a pipe leading from the sewage tank into the engine room, in reality there was a hole rusted thru the bulkhead that allowed the water to get into the tank. Two: the animation doesn’t depict the bow hitting the sea floor while the stern was still above the surface. Being a 500 foot long ship sinking in 300 feet of water that’s what happened.
What sort of Naval Architect designs a large passenger carrying vessel in such a way that a simple, single fracture of a welded seam will lead to the complete loss of the hull? Having actually designed in such a catastrophic fault, they then compounded it by not installing any leak monitoring equipment, water level detectors or emergency pumps at the likely fracture point! For the cost in materials and labour to have reinforced the weak point in the design is negligible in comparison to that of a total hull loss!
Check valves had been removed, and the bulkhead separating the sewage tank from the machinery space had a hole rusted thru it. Negligent maintenance negated the navel architects design.
Fortunately, the time for it to actually sink gave enough time for the entertainment group to get all the passengers out safely. By the time the ship was at its last moments, no one was left onboard the ship at all.
The ending of the video does not at all jibe with the historical footage. She didn't sort of continuously "slide away" as depicted here; the 502ft long ship clearly hit the bottom at about 320ft & all but stopped sinking for a short time before becoming unbalanced & then sliding off to the side. When the footage is as clear as the sinking is there's really no excuse for not getting a simulation correct.
Has italian...I don't feel offended. I know that sometimes but this time the italian way of doing things (badly) wasn't in the ship construction but in the ship maintenance. It was old and in bad conditions, that's why that pump broke and flooded the ship. (And the crew didn't even close the watertight bulkheads). In any case, the ships we build here in Italy are not that bad. We have Fincantieri which has been the leader in the construction of cruise ships for years. ',:^D
Its a rough estimate made by someone who isn't familiar with the topic. She hit the bottom right before her stern mast, if you were wondering, and then settled on her side.
the sinking is good except for the end. when the funnel went under the starboard list had died down quite a bit and it was vertical when it went under going down slowly then in little chunks.
People on the boat said they smelled sewage at the beginning when the leak ostensibly began. Is that larger tank at the bottom the septic tank? Was that what got pushed up into the passenger cabins? Great animation - appreciated.
The small square cubicles are all rooms and during the flooding. All the bathroom things (Toilets, Sinks And Showers) All Bursted with water flooding the rooms. Intense Right?
With all the different compartments you think they could have sectioned it off..But once the Sewage system got Backed up.....leakes everywhere began. Why didn't they get the lifeboats Right.....Just like titanic..Maybe some Muster drills should include....Lifeboats!! Why haven't they improved this system!!? The Oceanliner was too Old!! Maybe STOP selling Old ships with Holes in it.
Just imagine being on a sinking ship your in the ship bathroom your about to poo then a blast of water hits your butt then u just drowned whilst on the toilet
Whatever happened to the "water tight" compartments that separate each other so if one gets flooded, the others still keep the water out and the ship maintains its buoyancy?
The ship flooded via the sewage system because of a faulty/missing non return valve. The sewage pipes pass through the watertight compartments. They have to, in order to reach the tanks.
People say titanic had a fatal flaw. No. She was a ship that encountered a freak accident were nothing could be done. Take a look at the this ship the oceanos for example. Small crack in the bottom of the ship tiny. Modern ship from the 90's went down in a matter of hours.
The iceberg was avoidable. The night the titanic sank, there had been iceberg warnings. Due to the calm waters, the possibility of icebergs floating in to shipping lanes was high. The captain decided to ignore this warning and continue towards america at high speed. Therefore, once the iceberg was spotted in its path, it was unavoidable given its speed.
Liam Paquette it was common protocol for ocean liners to steam at full speed until danger was actually spotted. Even if they did receive iceberg warnings, they were only required to slow down after they had actually spotted ice.
A great animation, really says it al, thank you. I sailed on her 2 years before this happened and she was one of the top ships in the fleet, but sadly, it appears as if she was in serious decline. We were very lucky that everybody got off her.
Considering the rumours that went around shortly after she sank this one is one heck of a lot more lucid. From what I read it covers most of the events reasonably well. It does not however explain the behaviour of the Capt.
