JDCAVE
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- Apr 3, 2011
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- Vessel Name
- Phoenix Hunter
- Vessel Make
- Kadey Krogen 42 (1985)
Here is an example of what can go terribly wrong when too many people are loaded too high on a ship.
Or more recently the whale watching boat "Leviathan II" off Tofino. Preliminary findings released by Transportation Safety Board of Canada implied the loading of people on the top deck caused the boat to roll over.
"Marc-Andre Poisson, the director of marine investigations with the Transportation Safety Board, released preliminary results of Sunday's accident that claimed five lives. One passenger is still missing.
"We know that most passengers and crew were on the top deck on the port side ... this would have raised the centre of gravity, affecting the vessel's stability," he said during a news conference.
"We also know that the sea conditions were such that the wave approached the vessel from the starboard quarter," he said. "We know the vessel broached and then capsized."
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/centre...ave-hit-b-c-whale-watching-boat-tsb-1.2629258
The investigation continues:
http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/enquetes-investigations/marine/2015/m15p0347/m15p0347.asp
Jim
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