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‘Indescribable’ crew errors led to UK tech mogul’s shipwreck, yacht maker says (www.scmp.com)
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[–] BananaTrifleViolin 45 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"Yacht maker who makes yachts for billionaires scrambles to blame the crew so he can save more yachts and not be sued"

That's the story here. He's trying to set the narrative as entirely human error rather than a design flaw. For example one concern is how quickly an intact vessel sank - 30 seconds is being claimed in some areas - and the yacht may have an overlong aluminium mast which contributed to it capsizing .

People saying they don't care about billionaires dying are missing the point. The yachts maker is trying to pin it on the crew before its even been properly investigated.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Ok (especially the mast & boom design), but I think that if "close the doors in event of a storm" isn't followed there is no possible safeguarding that the manufacturer could have implemented - short of just not offering beaches on yachts which all customers demand. You can't have several giant open holes in the hull & offer the same safety regardless of if they are open or in a closed bolted position.

If a ferry went down bcs the loading gates were open in rough sea the reason seems clear.

Also for just about any 10+ million moneys yacht that got destroyed there are always unbelievably stupid reasons. Eg a modern 60+ ft yacht beaching on an island at cruise speed is ... just stupid.

Same with this ones beach club hatches - maybe the passengers demanded they are open when they wake up & the wage crew had to comply.

As for the keel not being in a lowered position that is just extra stupid, and not just bcs of the weather warnings flashing. Sailing boats need it, and dynamic ones (usually more for performance than comfort) can offer more or less stability by design. And at that depth (or just the fact they were anchored) the keel being up just doesn't make sense beyond an active decision that 'its fine' by the crew.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

i'm ok with it. for once the corporate blame game is not fucking us over.

[–] NegativeInf 42 points 4 months ago

Fuck billionaires. The sea seems to like the taste. Follow it's example. Eat the rich.

[–] AbouBenAdhem 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

“The boat suffered a series of indescribable, unreasonable errors, the impossible happened on that boat … but it went down because it took on water.” [...] The CEO ruled out any design or construction errors, which he called unlikely after 16 years of trouble-free navigation.

This sounds like an out-take from the “front fell off” skit.

[–] Fades 14 points 4 months ago

I’m glad at least the whales are making progress on eating the rich. I look forward to the next billionaire accident

[–] Crackhappy 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let me describe in detail all the ways I give a fuck about the deaths of rich people. 1)

[–] norimee 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Then care that those who get rich selling toys to billionaires try to blame it on the small people, the crew who I guess wasn't rich at all. The crew died as well and now their families have to deal with the yacht maker dragging them through the mud.

Care about the crew.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
And Babylon, many times demolished
Who raised it up so many times? In what houses
of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?
Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished
Did the masons go? Great Rome
Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom
Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song
Only palaces for its inhabitans? Even in fabled Atlantis
The night the ocean engulfed it
The drowning still bawled for their slaves.

The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Did he not have even a cook with him?

Philip of Spain wept when his armada
Went down. Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the Second won the Seven Year's War. Who Else won it?

Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man?
Who paid the bill?

So many reports.
So many questions.

-- Bertold Brecht, Questions from a worker who reads

[–] WildPalmTree 3 points 4 months ago

A million up-votes, if I could. Thank you.

[–] Crackhappy 2 points 4 months ago

Absolutely valid. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The ocean scares me, that’s the shark’s house

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's pee in there...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Can attest, did pee in it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Sharks store pee in their balls.

[–] 11111one11111 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is indescribable the right word? It feels like a translation error. The article keeps using it to describe the error but doesn't that word literally mean "unable to descibe?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yea I'm kind of curious what their fuckup was specifically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Imagine somebody failed to catch a baseball. What was their error?

[–] 11111one11111 1 points 4 months ago

Idk was it a grounded a fly a line drive? Was the player lunging for it, running after it or stationary?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where's the rest of the story

[–] Questy 4 points 4 months ago

Basically the story is that the CEO of the company that built it, before the investigation has been done, blames the crew. It couldn't have been a structural or design failure, again, according to the CEO of the builder. This is an interesting case, maybe it will be on What's Going on With Shipping one of these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Felon oligarch too, feels like karma. Though not for the others on that boat.