Actually I know a great deal about ships in storms.
Two things are illegal.
There is such thing as stability. They are calculations that are required to be made to stop a ship rolling like that, and laws that require those calculations to meet a certain standard. The ship there doesn't meet the required standards. The ship also has stabilisers under the water line, if the ship met the standards, the stabilisers would stop the ship.
The have got too much ballast water, a very low GM and an extremely sharp GZ curve.
Also, there are weather routeing requirements that mean that passenger ships of a certain size, shape, tonnage etc. aren't actually allowed to be in storms like that. They don't come out of nowhere, and it's not very hard to avoid them.
There is nothing illegal about walking down a road, especially if a storm started, but you don't have to worry about laws and rules that the UN, the IMO, the insurance companies, and the charterers set. You also don't have to worry about the passengers suing you because their grandmother is spread across a bulkhead.
So you can sleep easy at night.
(, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 11:51, Reply)
are all mariners this twatty?
Edit: Sorry, you're probably not.
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MrGomez and David Bellamy's big pubey beard, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 12:41,
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It looks fecking scary that's for sure, I wonder if the cruisers get any cash back in such circumstances
and shurely it shouldn't be possible for it to lean THAT much no matter what the weather, so me finks our mariner friend here may have a good point or 2...
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..wil, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 13:31,
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