Originally Posted by Teal
Originally Posted by rte
Originally Posted by Teal

This makes sense but how do you account for numerous videos that show the lights came on just a few minutes before the ship made a hard turn to starboard,which then forced it into a collision with a main structural support.

As said before - power comes back on, the ship's hard turn is actually prop walk due to it being single screw. Full astern will cause the stern to swing to port, essentially lining the ship/effectively bow to starboard. It's a physics thing.

I think we're going to find that it's bad fuel taking down systems/generators - flintlocke was onto that early.

Also it's been reported now that they were having system failure before leaving.

Bunker oil is bad fuel by definition. Ship, not super yacht needing diesel dialysis. Bad fuel causes electrical breakers to blow? Gee, who knew. I'm expert mariner enough to know speed is safety. No headway - no control. Nobody throws a ship that size in reverse expecting it to stop. No competently trained captain would that is. Who is that Gillette Razor guy again on simple answers?

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