What is the latest with the Sunshine State?

Apparently they tried to pull an El Faro and sailed right through the middle of the eye of Hurricane Ian.

I’d like to here more about the Florida waterfront and maritime infrastructure. Damage to boats and docks, shipyards, etc.

They sailed into the eye, did a bunch of damage, didn’t take storm ballast, didn’t fill after peak, crew practically mutineed at the next port, Captain relieved. Career over? Lifeboat smashed One guy on board had a brother on El Faro Green water up to manifold on a light tanker It was really re…

Wow. That’s crazy. I wonder if it the captain had a big ego, or if he was lacking proficiency in wx monitoring, or maybe they failed to update bonvoyage…or maybe something else? Glad to hear they’re safe, but man that’s unacceptable.

[image] Quetzacoatlus: big ego This one. Only this one. All the mates told him he was out of his fucking mind. He told the company he was going to go offshore and then follow behind it. Why Crowley didn’t do anything about that is beyond me.

[image] New3M: Why Crowley didn’t do anything about that is beyond me. Agreed. With networked AIS capability and weather routing, the first thing a competent ship manager should do in these circumstances is to monitor and challenge the position and track of his vessel relative to the hurrica…

[image] Offshore44: They fired him! Yea of course they did. But they could have avoided that.

So, we have such an antiquated system that allows one man to risk the lives of many others with no ability to overrule him, even from the office? Practically speaking, what if the office and maybe some sort of authority (USCG??) told the captain to do something and he didn’t…could they authorize th…

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