I did ask a handful of people with varying degrees and types of color blindness about the windows. I sent them various pictures from just a few feet away all the way to pictures taken from the H20 area. I just asked them how many windows were open in each of the pictures.
ALL of them pointed out the open windows. In fact, they noticed one I had not!
I know it isn't that relevant but I found it interesting.
Yep, we're back to smoke and mirrors...
The colorblind ploy is mentioned in the complaint as if being colorblind is a disability that prevents people from distinguishing an open window from a closed window:
(3) they did not have sufficient features to allow passengers, like Mr. Anello, to adequately distinguish windows that were closed from those that were opened, especially for passengers who are colorblind, like Mr. Anello.
https://www.lipcon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/DE-1-Wrongful-Death-Complaint.pdf
I also noticed that in the complaint Chloe "asked" to be picked up:
20. Upon reaching this wall of glass, Chloe asked to be lifted up so that she could bang on the glass of the window, as Chloe frequently did at her older brother’s hockey games. Mr. Anello then lifted Chloe up onto the railing and held Chloe while she leaned forward to bang on the glass that Mr. Anello and Chloe thought to be in front of them. As Chloe leaned forward, however, there was no glass in the frame in front of her, and she slipped from Mr. Anello’s arms, falling through the open pane and down approximately 150 feet below onto the Pier in San Juan, resulting in her death.
https://www.lipcon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/DE-1-Wrongful-Death-Complaint.pdf
But in his interview with CBS SA said:
"So she's down at the — looking at the — out the window, and the glass. I bent down by her, and then we always, like, when you're — whenever we were at hockey games, we would bang on the glass, and it was fun, you know? So when I knelt down to be with her at that level, I couldn't reach the glass, really, with my fingertips, so I knew she couldn't. So that's when I decided I'd pick her up," he said. "So I, you know, was trying to stand her on the railing. And it happened in seconds."
Grandfather charged in girl's cruise ship death says colorblindness may have been a factor
It's not a huge difference but it makes me think either Winkleman revised the story or SA revised his. The truth usually remains the same. IMO it was Winkleman who put that spin on it to divert attention from the fact that SA chose to pick Chloe up, which makes him sound... reckless.
