"harry" wrote in message
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On May 4, 7:51 am, "Rod Speed" wrote:
harry wrote





dennis@home wrote
Iain Freely wrote
dennis@home wrote
Gary wrote
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.
On the other hand the titanic suffered similar damage and stayed
afloat
long enough to launch all its lifeboats and saved thousands from
certain death.
Thousands were not saved from certain death, 1,514 passengers died
and
only 710 passengers were saved.
Get your facts right!
You can talk, you don't have a clue about the Costa Concordia.
The Britannic was fitted with cranes instead of davits.

Yes.

It could launch any life boats on either side in any degree of list.

Wrong, most obviously if its capsized.

Capsised is not list

You never ever could bull**** your way out of a wet paper bag.

Not only couldn't it launch any lifeboat in that particular situation,
it also cant launch those on the other side of the funnels with some
lists either, because the funnels get in the way, stupid.