Cruise Ship Crash

[cassa333]

The bloke guiding people of the smaller boat was, on the face of it quite brave. He could have done a runner but stayed to help people off the walkway.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48489158

[jno]

goodness, I was on that ship in Venice a few years ago - the little one, not the big one. That's scary. Big liners like that really shouldn't be inside the lagoon at all.

[-Talbot-]

oooh....I've been on that one.

[237SJ]

It looks like he was crew. Helping people was his job. When you are crew, you don`t run away.

[cassa333]

Yes I know that but he could have run away.

It is in times of stress when we see both the good and bad side of people and he did good lol

[sanmac]

Tell that to the Captain of the Costa Concordia. And yes, even though it was his duty, he can still be commended for doing it.

[237SJ]

One of the things that we were always taught was "A trained mind is better than an untrained mind" When you have a drill and know what to do in an emergency, you go into automatic mode and don`t think about anything but what has been drilled into you. I guess that is what that guy was thinking

[malagabob]

When you’ve got a few thousand tons moving without brakes there’s not much to stop it.

[waterboatman]

That's the main reason I don't like seagoing vessels with only one engine.