[QUOTE=BMCSRetired;70850]The MARINE ELECTRIC forced their hand, domestically.[/QUOTE]
But the HOFE happened 4 years after the MARINE ELECTRIC.
Obviously as cappy208 points out that the ME loss pointed a lazerbeam right at MTL management and finally the buck passing to the master and crew came to an end which was a very good thing to occur.
Speaking of Shittino, there has been no news at all in the past few months. Is the craven coward still holed up in his house? Effing ASSHOLE! Reading about the HOFE loss made me become aware yet again how EXTREMELY LUCKY the crew and passengers were in the COSTA CONCORDIA that the loss wasn’t in the many hundreds!