Ruthbullock
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My thoughts about the captain, is that it’s not like a coach where there are multiple drivers. The captain will have perhaps had a few drinks within reason with the guests at the meal and then gone to bed after sailing and supervising moorings etc all day. It would be the bosun and other deckhands doing the night shift when it’s moored. It’s likely they will have woken the captain, but perhaps there was not enough time. Whilst it’s the captain who was supervising, we have no idea when the boat dropped anchor and who was responsible for overseeing that, who was awake- how skilled they were in understanding incoming weather, if there was a mechanical issue that prevented the keel from being dropped- the questions could go on and on. We have a lot of people investigating it from several different countries and it’s likely answers will be forthcoming quite rapidly- as it currently seems far to similar to the titanic- an unsinkable ship that didn’t see incoming problems.
Putting on a life jacket and jumping overboard into what is relatively warm water, was a survivable option- the fact so many were still in cabins shows their belief they would be safe in this unsinkable super yacht. I’m sure somewhere someone is currently running a model simulation and dumping water on the boat with and without the keel activated to see what happens. One thing that has come out from the black box is the broken anchor 14 minutes before it sank- did they raise the keel at that point, due to a loose anchor chain swinging below?
Putting on a life jacket and jumping overboard into what is relatively warm water, was a survivable option- the fact so many were still in cabins shows their belief they would be safe in this unsinkable super yacht. I’m sure somewhere someone is currently running a model simulation and dumping water on the boat with and without the keel activated to see what happens. One thing that has come out from the black box is the broken anchor 14 minutes before it sank- did they raise the keel at that point, due to a loose anchor chain swinging below?