In article , Moonraker
writes
Batten down the hatches is a well know saying for a reason. It was too
late when they were in the mess, but with modern technology there must
have been some warning!


Was it real ? Did it ever get verified or was it staged?
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

The official report to which a link was posted looked genuine.

In article ,
says...
In article , Moonraker
writes
Batten down the hatches is a well know saying for a reason. It was too
late when they were in the mess, but with modern technology there must
have been some warning!


Was it real ? Did it ever get verified or was it staged?

No it was real, I have now seen the full story and the daft beggers made
a turn in heavy weather without alerting everyone, ship got hit by one
wave that somehow disbled the stabilizers and over she rolled, they may
have had no warning about the wave but they sure as hell knew they were
going to alter course, I am very surprised they were not heavily sued by
some of the injured
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

Are we still talking the one in the original post?

What the report said was that one stabiliser was out of action, which was thought acceptable. Then the ship got hit by a wave which sent water into the bridge and disabled the remaining stabiliser. With the ship rolling, the captain tried to turn it to lessen the roll. He warned that there may be more rolling, as indeed there was. Main problem was not so much the rolling as that the furniture was not adequately secured for that degree of rolling, which was a bit of a problem as the bar we saw in the video was one of the muster stations.