http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/travel/2012/01/cruise-ship-disaster-arouses-concerns-memory/ Just another blogs.smithsonianmag.com site Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/travel/2012/01/cruise-ship-disaster-arouses-concerns-memory/#comment-189 Tony Winig Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:58:27 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/travel/?p=564#comment-189 Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/travel/2012/01/cruise-ship-disaster-arouses-concerns-memory/#comment-188 Wilson Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:26:37 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/travel/?p=564#comment-188 Why take an unnecessary risk with a ship like this? It's not a row boat. Furthermore, did the captain not have access to maps, clocks, gps, lookouts, sonar, radar, and more? Finally, wasn't keeping this ship off of the ground a huge priority? Why take an unnecessary risk with a ship like this? It’s not a row boat. Furthermore, did the captain not have access to maps, clocks, gps, lookouts, sonar, radar, and more? Finally, wasn’t keeping this ship off of the ground a huge priority?

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/travel/2012/01/cruise-ship-disaster-arouses-concerns-memory/#comment-186 Lucinda Boyd Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:41:48 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/travel/?p=564#comment-186 The comparison of this damaged ship and its hapless captain to the American airliner floating in the Hudson River and its duly celebrated captain, Chesley Sullenbarger, is too easy too make, unless the emphasis centers on disaster preparedness. One might be forgiven the thought that the remarkable outcome of the earlier disaster brought home to every person with responsibility for someone else's safety, that precise plans and repeated drills make a huge difference. Did the Costa company fail to translate the American experience into Italian? Will the failures of this 2012 event be translated into every known language on the planet as well as mandated for public distribution by every government? The comparison of this damaged ship and its hapless captain to the American airliner floating in the Hudson River and its duly celebrated captain, Chesley Sullenbarger, is too easy too make, unless the emphasis centers on disaster preparedness. One might be forgiven the thought that the remarkable outcome of the earlier disaster brought home to every person with responsibility for someone else’s safety, that precise plans and repeated drills make a huge difference. Did the Costa company fail to translate the American experience into Italian? Will the failures of this 2012 event be translated into every known language on the planet as well as mandated for public distribution by every government?

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