The cruise ship disaster near Italy again raised the question of ship safety, and like the Princess of the Stars disaster, pointed to the importance of the captain and crew being trained to put safety first.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
and in the US, cruising up the beautiful coast of the Alaskan panhandle is in vogue, and Popular Mechanics muses: What would happen if a similar accident happened on one of these ships?
(Headsup via instapundit)
Well, it's been awhile since a passenger ferry had an accident in Alaska but this site lists a few, including that last major disaster: that of the steamer Princess Sophia
more at Wikipedia: which includes the controversy: because the captain hit a reef and even when rescue ship arrived refused to evacuate (waiting for high tide so they could launch the lifeboats and have rescue ships closer to the crippled ship) and then was hit by a storm that resulted in the disaster.
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