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From what I've read, normally it is a local pilot/agent that commands the ships through Suez and not the captain, so I guess the shipping company is off the hoo
by TheChaplain 6y ago
From what I've read, normally it is a local pilot/agent that commands the ships through Suez and not the captain, so I guess the shipping company is off the hook.
- drsim 6y agoWhat about if mechanical failure of the ship was a factor.
- colechristensen 6y agobig engineering failures rarely have a one dimensional cause. There are usually many failures and many opportunities to have prevented the failure. Armchair blaming just isn’t a useful exercise, very few people have the context to understand what might have happened and rallying up a chorus of people who know little blaming entities they had never heard of is less than useless.
- lostlogin 6y agoMaybe they burnt something out while drawing big penis pictures while waiting their turn. https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkdjzb/cargo-ship-suez-canal-dick-pic-ever-given https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkdjzb/cargo-ship-suez-c...
- joking 6y agoThis ships have to be accompanied by tugs, to prevent this kind of errors, if the sandstorm was so big that even the tugs were unable to maintain control of the ships, maybe the error was from the canal authority to give the permission to transit the canal without looking the weather forecast.
- dlp211 6y agoI don't think this is correct based on some of the maritime law I read. My understanding is that the Panama canal is the only place in the world to where the Pilot assumes charge of the ship. Everywhere else, the Captain remains the authority. Also, the helmsmen would have been from the crew. The pilot would simply be giving adjustments. As to whom is responsible monetarily ::shrugs::, it seemed like an act of God caused this so I have no clue.