Reading that, at first it's just "oh that doesn't sound good" and then later it's "oh that's bad", then "omg that's horrifying". All in very polite language. S

Reading that, at first it's just "oh that doesn't sound good" and then later it's "oh that's bad", then "omg that's horrifying". All in very polite language. So the ship was not properly maintained, never did drills, did not verify maintenance that was done to life rafts, the "load limits" were not updated when major modifications were made, it had improper sealing against water, it was loaded very poorly with insufficient oversight, there were insufficient tie-downs for cargo, entire rows of cars were tied to a single chain instead of individual tie-downs, it routinely ran with too-little oil, the captain assumed weather prediction is perfect and plotted an aggressive course extremely close to the hurricane, the captain went to sleep during the critical hours the ship approached the storm and blew off course change suggestions, captain failed to get up in a timely manner, failed to recognize they were in an "oh hell no" proximity to the hurricane, failed to realize they were taking on water until too late, steered almost into the Cat3 eye while trying to fix stuff, did a turn which caused the oil to slide to the side of the tank and turn off the engine, still optimistically thought they'd get it together instead of calling for help, and generally ditzed around until it was too late to abandon ship. The company which owns this ship needs to die. Also, there was some fine smell of corruption. Coast Guard did a surprise inspection and found serious issues on a sister ship. They got called by their home base to stop that. The CG then flagged the type of issue on the ship and noted that the rest of the similar components needed to be checked. The Certification Agency performed the inspections and said "no it was just the one that was bad." Then the GC does another inspection a few months later and finds that every one of the components was rusted through.