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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HopefulRailUser: [QB] I have been thinking about how to respond to your question Henry. I primarily sail on Holland America and the deck officers are Dutch or British. I attend all the question and answer sessions with those officers as I am very interested in hearing about their training and experience. I also follow the blog one of them does, Captain Albert, which is full of interesting info about ports, pilots, tides, wind, shallow water, squat and the type of decisions the captain must make in every port and each day at sea. As a result of these experiences I cannot imagine any of these officers sailing off their planned course for any reason other than passenger and crew safety. The type of personal sight seeing being attributed to the Italian captain is bizarre. But this accident also brings up some very good points. If your ship is listing 20-90 degrees, how do you navigate about the decks. If you are in your cabin and the floor has become the wall and vice versa, how do you get to the door and out into the corridor, with the same wall, floor switch. And those life boats you so lovingly observed on embarkation are now either under water or resting against a now horizontal side of the ship. It would be up to the crew to try to maintain order but it would be very difficult. Panic would be very possible, even probable. If my lifeboat is gone who do I push aside to get into another one. I don't think regulations or even more strict life boat drills will fix things. The only fix for human error caused accidents is the training, education and ethics of the humans involved. I feel comfortable that those factors are present in the officers and crew I have met. I don't plan to sail Costa, that's for sure. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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