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Could stricken boat have handled an evacuation at sea?

AFTER SEVERAL days of watching the explanations for the trials aboard the cruise ship, the inability of authorities to airlift food to the vessel, and the more than four-hour debarkation procedure at the destination port, I am concerned about what would have happened to the 4,000 souls aboard if a major fire had required abandoning the vessel at sea.

William Kaden

Comments

Which is why they did not attempt to evacuate them.  Anyone who thinks that when a ship sinks, all of the lives could how somehow be saved should not go on a cruise ship.  There is a risk involved, granted a very, very small one.

But then, there was the Titanic....it was unsinkable. . .