Why Didn't This $300,000,000 Cruise Ship Stop? 

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10 years of experience in the cruise industry...... Do not get on board a Costa or any ship with and Italian master.

Ah... Costa. The Evergreen of cruise ships.

I love how the ad has a red line at the bottom to make you think "oh, this ad won't take too long, look at how fast that line is moving!" only for it to progressively get slower and slower. At 20s in this 73s ad, the line is already half way there xD

Why aren't the ships talking to each other? Wouldn't that make most sense? If you intend to cross in front of someone call them up and talk to them.

In 2008 it could be that Captain Schettino was in command of the ship. I sailed with him on the Atlantica a few years prior. Later he took command of the Costa Concordia and we all know how that ended.

No video you have ever done has shown me the immense skill necessary for pre-modern navigation. With all of these modern tools, the ability (if they'd use it) to communicate between vessels, and the tight rules of the TSS, you can still mess it up. In the past, you'd have to be a true expert and master to make judgements based on sight, wind speed, and very little precise information. It lends a degree of amazement to pre-modern maneuvers I've never considered.

Ooh, it's like a Mentour Pilot video, but with boats.

Here i am, as a ferry captain, watching your videos on ships, when your sponsor comes up. A game i has also worked on as a hobby animator

Oh costa. Never change. You're very entertaining

I'll be keeping this in mind when I'm faced with ship traffic in my cruise ship.

Owner of neptune was very smart to make an extraordinary investment in safety. It saved their cargo and ship!

I saw a similar event on the river Mersey. The ferry Royal Daffodil tried to cross in front of the gas tanker Ramira, instead of waiting and crossing astern. It was close. The only time that I have seen a tanker do the maritime equivalent of a handbrake turn

Those Concordia guys seem to have trouble trying tricky maneuvers in tight quarters. Luckily this one didn't sink.

Clear violation of basic ColRegs - when you make a turn, make it assertively, so that others can clearly understand your intentions. Costa got it wrong, and Neptune therefore made a clear manoeuvre. Lucky she had the sea room for it!

I got distracted for a moment and looked back to see DS9 and was extremely confused. A cruise ship ending up near the Bajoran wormhole would be a heck of a misnavigation.

I wouldn't wonder if Schettino's son was the captain.

Has everybody forgotten that there is something called *VHF* for short distance, single channel direct ship-to-ship communication? You know, real time analogue communication? Loads of white noise with the squelch down. It's a green box, somewhere hanging on the ceiling with a telephone horn on a curly wire hanging down. You just squeeze the horn switch and you are instantly transmitting for anyone to listen to. Simple and effective and it works as long as a 24Volt supply is available. You should try it once. This wouldn't have happened if someone had remembered the good old mariphone.

20 seconds in "Costa" again. Dis gon b gud.

Life is a highway

The Dover Strait traffic rules look a lot like those of inland waterways, but on inland waterways any relevant ships and boats are always within earshot and can signal intentions with horns or hoisted flags and shapes. And there are mandatory separation distances. But in busy city traffic, things like green-to-green passes or crossing just behind someone's stern are nothing too extraordinary or report-worthy unless you get close enough to spit in the other skipper's face.

The way you use "anyway" in your videos makes me smile every time

Basic summary sounds like, if you're driving an entire hotel full of people around, don't try to dart trough traffic. Stay in your lane, make your movements obvious, and it's ok to slow down or stop for a bit, and wait for space to open up.

Not surprising. Carnival does its damndest to hire the least experienced people they can get there hands on to pilot and navigate their ships. On a slightly off topic note. I was on one of their cruises about three weeks, my fifth one with them and seventh cruise in general, and I was ABSOLUTLY DISMAYED when we did our muster training for emergencies and abandoning ship. They no longer have people go to their muster station and watch a crew member do a presentation on what you will do if the order to abandon ship is given. Instead they just talk over the intercom and "explain" what you will do! Me and my brother, who was in the US Navy for six years aboard a carrier, were speculating on what the death toll will be the next time one of their Captains pulled a "Costa Concordia". To make matters worse, when me and him actually went to our designated muster station we at first had a hard time finding it, until we noticed the relatively small sign on the wall designating that dinning room entrance as our muster station. We went on that cruise with our grandmother and her elderly friend and we KNEW that they would probably not be able to find the muster station in an emergency, hell they couldn't find our dining room even after five days aboard the ship even though it was the same dining room the entire voyage! And there were A LOT of elderly people, as well as people with severe mobility issues, mainly being so obese that they needed electric scooters to even move about. Which I decided I would just assume that an underlying medical condition caused their obesity and not that they are so fucking lazy that they ride a scooter to the buffet. I can only hope the crew is actually far better trained than I believe them too be, and that any disaster, such as the Costa Concordia, is mitigated by a better, and far swifter response by the ships officers.

Errrrm question, why didn't the crew on the ships just communicated to each other? Like: "Oh hey I'm coming in front of you ok, not wanting a T-Bone OK?" Don't they have like frequencies they could talk to each other and whatnot? I mean pretty sure communication is key on plenty of circumstances, not just hoping the other party understands what you're doing.

The nautical equivalent of 'I think I can make it before the light'.

I wonder if the naval industry would benefit from a boat version of TCAS, the traffic collision avoidance system used by aviation.

This is some Normal Accidents case study material right here

I’m a bit curious why the Neptune didn’t adjust course to port, as it would have eliminated the risk of collision without requiring a 360 turn.

Amazing explanation. Thank you.

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Thank you sir!

I have so many questions. Why would you risk your vessel by shooting the gap? Hail the other vessel and explain the situation. Why would you turn to starboard? Clearly turning to Port will open up your CPA. Also, have they never heard of right of way and stand on? This entire situation just frustrates me.

Bad drivers are everywhere. 😀

Having to learn the rules of the road this whole thing could have been avoided if the cruise ship had followed the correct rules.

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It's wild that the people commandeering these massive ships with either passengers or expensive cargo, steer the ship like every worst driver you see on the road. Why even try cutting between two ships close together in the first place?

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Ah Brilliant I've just been set homework to examine an MAIB report

I also don't undestand why Gand Neptune didn't veer to port side instead, thus requiring a less extreme maneuver to avoid collision, since the crossing vessel was going the other direction.

this is why ships need turn signals like cars

Good video= Good lesson

I clicked this just to see what that star trek game is but honestly I still got interested enough to skip the ad after clicking the link in the comments, this channel has great editing and formatting of the videos always. I am not particularly knowledgeable about boats but many of the videos get me interested enough to watch the explanation of how this stuff happens

One surprising thing - to me - is the maneuver chosen by Neptune. In racing for instance your taught to always aim for where the other car had already been as it’s highly unlikely it’s going to come back there. In this instance the Neptune should have veered port rather than starboard if you ask me - for that same reason.

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International Rules of the Road "When all three lights i see ahead, I turn to Starboard and show my Red" "Green to Green, Red to Red, Perfect Saftey, Go Ahead" "But if to Starboard Red appear It is my Duty to keep Clear" "To act as Judgemeant says is Proper, To Port or Starboard, Back her Stop her" "And if Upon My Port is seen A Steamer's Starboard light of Green' "I hold my Course to watch and see, That Green to Port keep's Clear of me" "Both in Saftey and in doubt, I always keep a Good Lookout "When in Danger, No room to Turn Ease Her Stop Her Go Astern!!!

All I could think of was Dwight and Jim during the advert.

I'm curious about the common policy of accident investigations being only for the purpose of preventing future accidents, not for litigation. Airlines and (I think) railroads have the same policy. How does it work in practice? What prevents corporate victims from bringing lawsuits anyway? What prevents individual people victims from bringing lawsuits?

Cruise Capt: Yes we communicate with them clearly! Investigator: how? Verbally or Italian hand gestures?

3:22 Further ahead there was an intersection where you could turn left and it was right in line with destination.

It's worth noting here that the 1st naval rule was followed by all required ships..... Don't be in a crash - and do everything you can to avoid it. Turning 360 degrees is much cheaper than trying to salvage a sinking ship.

Bro thought he was driving an audi cutting him off like that

Very interesting! It sure could have been worse!

Curious if you have played sea of thieves and if so what your thoughts are on its sailing mechanics

Ima commercial Fisherman ive been a Capt. and 1st Mte for years and this blows my mind while we fish with our dredge on the bottom (Fishing Gear) connected by our fishing cable, we fish while other boats are very very close to each other with Gear on the bottom, so you have to be on yoour game and 1 of the 1st things i was ever taught is , YOU CANNOT ASSUME THE OTHER VESSEL KNOWS WHAT THERE DOING OR WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, so you take adequate precutions to make the 1st mov to avoid this BS

No action is to extreme to avoid collision. The captain of the car carrier just didn't want to risk a collision with a passenger liner who they probably assume filled with passengers. Though the easier course of action is that the car carrier could have reduced speed by either stopping their engine or putting it to full astern. It's easier to prevent a collision if your ship start to turn away from the opposite ship rather than turning towards them before turning away.

Cruise ships being a scourge to everyone? What a surprise.

Costa, the Spirit of cruise lines.

1:14 - this is exactly how those pilot boats look like... I live exactly where those pilot boats can be seen next to the big ships at the end of the Scheldt - the river to Antwerp harbour. The fact that this is a yellow one, and not a red one means that there was a Dutch pilot delivered to the ship, had it been red, the pilot would have been from Belgium!

At 6:24 ... Grand Neptune completed a 360 degree turn??? Huh? Think about that. 😃

Why did the oncoming ship turn in the same direction as the crossing ship, like we see in the animation at 6:00? It feels like it would be much better to turn in the other direction and get behind it. Turning the way they did, seem like it would made a collision more likely than if they had just kept going and take no action at all (given that the distances and speed of the animation is up to scale). But still - very interesting to watch.

Why does the bar below the ad move so quickly qt the start but so slowly at the end, how odd

I’m guessing that CPA means closest point of approach, and TCPA means time to closest point of approach.

Still surprised how much difference there is between aviation and sailing Sailing is always a mess of guessing and lack of communication while aviation is more like a coordinated dance But sailing has a much longer history, like 10x, than aviation...

Tip: Its never a good time to interrupt the content with a plug for a product, after we're forced to watch two fifteen second ads before the video begins.

Don’t you love it when your ship captain is legally stupid?

You are allowed to enter the tsp-zone when you’re crossing. So you don’t even have to wait till you pass the mpc buoy

Would it be possible to set some kind of "traffic light" or "Naval Traffic Controller" on such busy areal?

Grand Neptune:DeJavu!!!! I've just been in this place before

I was wondering if you could do a video on demagnetizing ships. I'm trying my best to understand but I know it will just click when you explain it..

What those people did to DS9 should be criminal.

Why didn't the Neptune turn to port (left) instead of turning in the same direction of the Costa? Don't think that they would have gone on the other lane.

Could you look into what caused the stora korsnas link 1 to explode off skinningrove in 1991

After another unfortunate Starfleet collision, there was another meeting to demand something be done about the multi-century attempt at a collision avoidance system. If its possible to use warp drive to bypass the usual speed of light in regular space why can't we have a collision avoidance system? Well, it's complicated.

i can wait :3

Was the captain the captain of Concordia after this post 😂

I've just read the report and it says that the closest point of approach was 120 yards, not a couple of hundred metres as claimed. Anything less than 1 mile on a ship that size should have everybody on their toes, but 120 yards?! p.20 It seems to me that the correct course of action would have been to slow down, maintain the original course of 042, then swing NW, in behind Seabourn Pride (the ship behind Grand Neptune) and ahead of Cervantes (6.7 nm further behind). p.17. It's all very easy for me to be critical but what would they have done if there was no available gap just along the line? It also occurs to me that they knew they were going have to cross the TSS, so why didn't they practise their Trial facility on the ARPA when they were in Biscay? Poor show on the Atlantica and lucky they didn't have a similar team on the Grand Neptune coming the other way.

Traffic lights missing in the traffic lanes. Ships should have blinking yellow turn signals. Being used commonly in other transportations and people being most familiar with it,will easily guess the ships turning intentions. Multiple submarine surface flow control surfaces (ailerons) can be used to brake all the ships, without doing a full helm in high traffic density. Automatic traffic lane cross assistance computer for ships should be implemented for automatically checking, checking for any ships on the major lane and measuring their current speed and direct computer to computer communication with the nearby ship's computer system regarding crossing decisions, correcting the current speed, especially for ship braking to keep it waiting for other ships in a major lane to cross after which the turn is allowed to be started.

Is the DS9 music going to get this vid copyright striked? Or did the Sponsor give permissions to play it for this episode? Why did the green one turn right? visually it looks like turning left might have been a quicker way out of danger, assuming those 3 boats were the only ones in the immediate area.

You'd think that someone who passed basic navrules would know better... But hey, what do I know, I'm just a Boatswain's Mate.

Why didn't they turn left? It seems like a better collision avoiding maneuver

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.

After the incident report - was there a lawsuit after?

I was screaming costa when I saw cruise ship..

This was insaly insterting

your link to Star Trek™ Fleet Command doesn't work for windows.

Don't ships have a TCAS system like airplanes? Identifiers on a display and instant and automatic avoidance calculations? IE. if one ship is heading at another, it tells them to turn to avoid each other?

"The RORO vessel" all I need to know, I look forward to the future episode on its sinking. o.o

Me: i drifted a car to avoid an accident once. Deepwater pilot: amateur. I drifted thousends AND a ship...

Very misleading to have the progress bar in the ad slow down. But great video

I understand the need for advertisements and all, but that "progress bar" thing is the biggest middle finger in an ad form I've seen in a while. Talk about disrepect....

Maybe it’s my aeronautical bias, but wouldn’t turning in the opposite direction of the incoming traffic reduce the chances of a collision instead of turning in the same direction the traffic is going?

Wonder how many arguments there were to make all traffic sail on the right instead of the left :P

@6:22 180 degree turn surely?

How do you sink an Italian cruise ship ???? A: Put it in water 😂😂😂😂😂

A good reminder that accidents (or in this case, incidents) can happen even when no one is directly at fault.

Wait don't some of those countries drive with the steering wheel on the left side?

Please tell me that francesco schettino was the captain of the Costa Atlantica

How much signal I need to cut across 8 lane? None? I turn now, good luck everybody else. - Costa Atlantica probably