floored by this portion of the NTSB transcript for the El Faro (a ship that sailed directly into a hurricane due to the captain using a mobile weather app instead of government reports or cost guard alerts, and would sink with all lives lost about three hours after this quote)
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in reply to @numberonebug's post:
If it makes it any better, the last line in the transcript was the captain reassuring someone with "you're not gonna die, we're not going under, it's going to be alright" followed by sounds of the ship snapping under it's own weight
it boggles my mind that a ship captain actually killed himself and thirty-two other persons (peace be upon them) with a maritime variation of "follow the Google Map directions until they lead you straight into a ditch" shitty-driver thing ~Chara
That's so exactly what happened haha. It's so needless
Didn't help that the cars weren't lashed down so they had free surface effect going on, or the ship was modified to have a perforated floor w/o any studies to see how that would impact things, or that there wasn't any oversight from people who should've caught that he was fucking up. So frustrating to see
I mean I would not go out doing any naval anything without having a plan beforehand, but...mood. Fuckin mood.
To be fair, the captain was under huge time pressure, and when he reached out to management to express concerns and ask about a safer (slower) route he got "I don't know, what do you think?" With a veiled "If you call this wrong it's your ass".
That and the weather app was designed to show a lot of extra detail that wasn't there or was out of date (to look good), and the detail provided an illusion that it was more accurate than it really was.
Edit: Almost forgot about the horror of being asked to call the help desk if your ship is in trouble...
