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Latest from Dr.Sal and I am much relieved seeing/hearing Him switch from autopilot to track mode in his reoprting.Great accuracy guaranteed. Excellente !!!. Although verifying boyancy issues soon :wink: [Stena Immaculate and Solong Salvage & Investigation Underway | Russian Captain Arres…

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Lets wait for proper investigation . Luckily MAIB presiding and leading . Meantime hate repeating myself: Human error and system failures are smart euphemisms used widely as excuses in the maritime industry by steadily increasing number of apologists and slackers to make stupid people feel comfor…

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This trip might be on a 70 day time charter, but I think she’s long term chartered to Crowley for a while.

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I have little doubt there will be a split of fault here to some degree. Even the most clear cut cases of negligence have contributing factors on the other side.

I am betting 90/10 split or about in this case. Guessing the Solong OOW/master was sleeping.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by an overworked 3rd world mong whose career went from enjoyable and fulfilling to miserable abject drudgery in just 20 short years.

That the Master on MV Solong was Russian is not a main issue here, as long as he was qualified per IMO STCW. (+ Sober and awake, if he was OOW at the time) BTW;The crew onboard Solong was Russian and Pinoy. It doesn’t appears that ships with “1st world” Master, officers and crews has any less acci…

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