"Cruise ship Fiasco"

[torikoos]

There will be lawsuits galore stemming from this cruise fiasco, and a few lawyers will wind up fairly rich over it.

No doubt there will be, and nothing much will change. There is limited scope to change the designs/modify the existing fleets to have the 'split' power distribution systems, but the good news is that the newer designs are. Also, the general consensus is that your best lifeboat is the ship itself. Therefore, survivability of the actual ship is being studied and designs adapted to make this more and more the case, however, yes it is a business, not a navy. Therefore there will be corporate decisions made, based on what the coastguard tells them to do, and their shareholders want. Hopefully with the recent incidents, the shareholders will see it hurts their profits, and will allign their thinking with that of the coastguards and insurance companies...
But as always, something has to happen first, before action is taken, despite sometimes loud protests or concerns of the serving crews..

Koos