HC_Yacht_Deliveries wrote:
> Sure, it may sound pretentious, but given the fact that the small group
> of people who actually post here are either traveling consumers or
> travel agents (both who know little or nothing about the technicals of
> large ships and liners) I can offer *SPECULATION* that might actually
> be worth considering based on my knowledge and the insight of some
> people I know. Yes, I get a chuckle out of reading the rants and
> watching the hand-holding clique that follows a certain media text
> copying travel agent around like a little puppy dog. As I said before
> in a recent post, the Crown has a multi redun system and command purge
> wall. Even in manual, there is a multiple "wall" that monitors
> navigation and maneuvering inputs. Whatever input(s) happened that lead
> up to the event were probably done during trials and never put the ship
> in danger. Even in an override, manual or single command state, the
> "wall" of multi-redun and axsis are stepped....meaning that there is a
> lag that is in place for several programs to check, inform and query an
> allowance of inputs either manual or programmed. I have talked to
> several people about this; a long-time acquaintance who is MIT alumni
> and not only had a hand in writing codes for the software on this ship,
> but also writes guidance and nav programs for the military. Also, one
> of my relatives is a well known marine engineer and concurred with just
> about everyone I have talked with about this. Nobody I know has heard
> anything about any type of real or otherwise necessary avoidance event,
> so that would leave either a purposeful or unintended human based
> direction as cause with a total bypass of the stepped and tiered wall
> that is in place to guard against such actions. The odds of a total
> failure of every step in the system is about as close to zero as you
> can get. Even in full man, a scope target, depth alarm etc., can
> override (but not without stepping and query).
>
OMG! When I read your header I thought something happened to the Sea
Princess. (CP). I was realieved to find out that you were talking about
the Crown Princess (KP) and that there was no further events of any
other ships in the Princess fleet.
Bill
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