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The thought of evacuating, and accounting for in excess of 7000 passengers and crew just makes me think of the panic. I have been involved many times in large hotel evacuations, which is always mayhem, and all that happens with that is to get them out of the building and into fresh air, relatively simple. Now the though of having to get that many people into boats or rafts etc, down the side of high rise hulls !!!,in a seaway , incredible, and frightening. Lets just hope it never happens, kt
I have said it before and will say it again, There are that many different Nationals speaking different language crewing these ships there is no communication between the bridge and crew members, Crew members who are paid and have a duty of care for all passengers it is a disaster waiting to happen, If the Costa Concordia would have gone down instead of resting on rocks you would have had another Titanic story, Remember lads our first duty after signing on any ship passenger or otherwise was to find and familiarise your self with your designated life boat and fire station, And that was before you turned too Terry.
I discovered a couple of years back that some of those ships are very different when it comes to evacuation.
Some now have chutes similar to the ones on aircraft, the iea is you slide them down to the life boats and rafts.
Just hope I never have to se it.