"Martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 May 2012 13:14:25 +0100, "dennis@home"
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"Iain Freely" wrote in message
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In message , "dennis@home"
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"Gary" wrote in message
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Have people learned nothing from Titanic.

the obvious answer is no.

Look at the Costa Concordia accident, It hit a rock, got a gash in its
side, floated for a few minutes and then capsized.
If the wind hadn't blown it into the shore there would have been
thousands
dead. They couldn't even launch the lifeboats.


The F_cktard strikes again!

The wind didn't blow it there, it was manoeuvred under power!

You need to find the facts.
It lost all power and was blown back onto the shore.


They did launch lifeboats and thousands would not have died because it
sank in shallow water!

It came to a stop where the water was about 300 feet deep.
if it had gone down there they would have all died.
It didn't launch enough life boats to hold more than about 25% of the
souls
on board.
In fact it didn't even have enough life boats to hold more than about 80%
of
those onboard.

It did have more than enough life rafts for the rest.

True, not that any were used.