There should be some Names at Lloyd’s of London sweating bullets right now there probably are.
I wonder if this event was big enough that they rang the Lutine bell? It probably was.
https://londonist.com/london/history/lutine-bell
“I wonder if this event was big enough that they rang the Lutine bell?”
You are right there. There is an endless number of possibilities to point fingers at on this one. The crew mentioned power issues right before they hit the bridge, and alarms did go off supposedly, but that always leads to improper maintenance by crews as the ship was not new and someone screwed the pooch. But that has been used many times before like with the Boeing aircraft losing a door in flight.
Other things like the helmsman falling asleep, or drugged, or even inexperience at the helm could be contributory by the pilots actually steering the ship at the time of the crash. Synergy Marine Group — which owns and manages the ship, called the Dali — confirmed the vessel hit a pillar of the bridge at about 1:30 a.m. while in control of one or more pilots, who are local specialists who help navigate vessels safely into ports. So you’ve got maintenance, part failures, and pilot error all in the mix.
Gonna be fairly easy for the NTSB to find someone to blame. In the meantime, the insurance companies involved are probably making deals already. Commerce never stops and hiding in a hole is normal.
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