On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:31:30 GMT, W Randolph Franklin
wrote:
>(Sorry to put actual facts in an usenet posting. I feel
>strongly about this tragedy since I was only a few miles away
>when it happened.)
>
>- The latest story in the Albany Times Union is that the ship
>looked so unstable at the dock that 1-3 passengers refused to
>board.
>
>- The NTSB load test reported by a previous poster was
>actually aborted before the investigators could fully load the
>boat because it was too unstable.
>
>- The many witnesses to the capsizing did not report seeing
>any wake.
>
>- The boat seats were relatively high in the boat.
>
>- Usually the Ethan Allen had only a few customers, not fully
>loaded.
>
>- A good websites for news is this:
>
> http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/?SecID=1
>
>Also see the local TV stations, WTEN, WRGB, WNYT.
>
>
Something doesn't quite make sense or this article needs to address
more (maybe the other stories do). If I had to guess what the problem
was, my thoughts would be.... either the boat exceeded it's maximum
weight afloat, the load was not distributed properly or the boat was
modified from it's original build. Also I'm a bit surprised at the
person in charge didn't recognize a problem before it happened if he
had a lot of experience with this boat's characteristics or behavior
under this situation before.
Anyway, thanks for the report. |