Re: Sky news - Sinking ship

Sofa-Spud wrote:
John Rowland wrote:
Sofa-Spud wrote:
An Antarctic cruise ship is sinking in the antarctic sea and the
passenger are being taken off by the Endeavour . Fair enough, Julie
Etchingham tells us the dimensions of the hole from hitting an
iceberg - "25 by 10" and I thought WOW big berg - then she finishes
with "Centimetres" FFS a hole that small will sink a ship supposedly
able to safely ply the Antarctic sea? Have the shipping industry
learnt nothing from the Titanic??

Yes, you'd think they'd have made water moleculas bigger by now.

Never heard of multi skinned hulls or watertight doors?

Yes, but I presume that puts up construction cost and fuel consumption. They
use double-hulls on oil tankers, because the consequences of rupture are so
dire. The fact that all passengers and crew have escaped without injury
suggests that life boats are a working solution for passenger boats.



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