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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] Interesting point, Mr. Black. Somehow, I think it safe to say that US Navy vessels are built with two engines in separate fire and water tight compartments. So was the s/s United States, which in essence was a Navy Troop Transport that had been outfitted as a passenger vessel. I too am astounded how a fire affecting one engine could have disabled both as well as the entire "hotel" electrical power system. I trust they had an auxiliary generator on the uppermost deck to provide power for the navigation systems, but I have to wonder on that one. Sure seems like some pretty big corners are cut and a lot of fingers X'd in the construction of these present day Love Tubs. Carnival has had simply too many of these incidents involving fire and other disablements at sea - and never mind the atrociously negligent seamanship from which the results still remain for all to view off the Tuscan coastline. [i][list] [*]Thy sea, O God, so great, My boat so small, It cannot be that any happy fate, Will me befall, Save as Thy goodness opens paths for me, Through the consuming vastness of the sea.[/i] [/list] --Author unknown Be it noted I am not stating these Tubs are unsafe, for I have no credentials as a Naval Architect to make such a statement. But I honestly must wonder; could they be safer? Finally, there was a piece appearing in The Times likely about [URL=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F1091FFB395C17728DDDAF0A94D8415B8084F1D3] thirty years ago[/URL] that stated the Andrea Doria's design was so unseaworthy that the owners could have clearly and quickly determined their best interests were simply to "let her go". While of course what really counta is that all souls who survived the collision were saved, the owners were concerned about the potential for even more claims (and the "no-fault" agreement with the vessel that rammed her would be upset) and that she would have been seized if she ever went near a US Port or any port in a foreign state where any claimant resided. No doubt, this is the same rationale why the "Concordia" will be broken up (nautical for scrapped) when that hulk is finally floated. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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