Friday, January 20, 2012

Unauthorized but not unsafe course deviation?

It has been pointed out that the UK Hydrographic Office charts do not depict rocks in the area wherein the Concordia first impacted rocks. What other charts that might be normally used in the area depict has not been discussed.

A prior voyage of August 14th involved an even closer approach to the island and a transit near the area of impact on the fatal voyage.

So the course deviation on the fatal voyage might at this time appear to have been an unwise and selfishly motivated deviation that hazarded the vessel unnecessarily and that was made in a cavalier manner but the actual track of the vessel appears to have closely approximated that of a prior voyage.

It is unknown if the 24 year old ballerina who is supporting the captain's skill and actions has any knowledge of navigation matters.

It seems that with the vessel holed on the port side any listing should have been to port and should have been rather modest but the vessel listed to starboard and soon heeled hard over. It may have been that in an attempt to achieve a safe harbor the captain made such a tight turn as to cause the shipped water to slosh to the starboard side of the vessel.

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