Bourbon Rhode, ̶F̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ Flag State Report (Column about interim report released April 15, 2021)

This is interesting:

Our initial theory had been that perhaps commercial pressure had been applied by Bourbon to the master to meet a tight on-hire deadline in Georgetown for the new chart, or that the vessel lacked the bunkers to route around the storm.

Fortunately, neither of these theories seems to be true.

Therefore, the captain may not have had accurate weather routing information in the days before the tug encountered the hurricane.

I posted this on another thread just the other day:

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