Originally Posted by
Keith Tindell
On the question of lifts on cruise ships, if the order is given to abandon, presumably the same as ashore, the advice is do not use the lifts, in addition to power failure the ship may have a list, i think the Costa Concordia developed a list LOL. The thought of all of the elderly and infirm having to use stairs would be interesting. I recently stayed at a hotel in Wales, and was on the 3rd floor, only 1 lift, and that had a max of 3 persons, my wife decided to attempt the stairs as she has two dicky knees, she was in agony by the time she reached the ground floor, the thought of the rest of the 3rd floor piling behind us would have been dodgy to say the least.
In my job as a fire officer and the loss of power in the city, we would be inundated with emergency calls from people stuck in lifts, very little we could do, send crews out and up to the motor room and wind each lift up to the next floor to release them, but when there were literally dozens of calls, we rarely got round them all, before power was restored, but even so , some folks were in a very nervous state when released, kt