Here is the automatic iOS translation of a statement by the CEO of the group that owns Perini Navy. He is obviously defending his company but he makes some valid points.
Being italy where local prosecutors love to get their 15 minutes of fame, the captain Ian tgokgn to sleep well for next few months.
Everything that has been done reveals a very long sum of errors" - Giovanni Costantino, founder and managing director of The italian sea group, the listed company that owns the assets of Perini navi di Viareggio that built the Bayesian in 2008 - told Corrierere. "People didn't have to be in the cabins, the boat wasn't supposed to be at anchor. And then why didn't the crew know about the upcoming disruption? The passengers reported something absurd, and that is that the storm came unexpectedly, all of a sudden. It's not true. It was all predictable. I have the weather maps here in front of me. Suddenly nothing came. Ask yourself: why was no Porticello fisherman out that night? A fisherman reads the weather conditions and a ship doesn't? The disturbance was fully legible in all weather maps. You couldn't help but know."
Constantine is not indicted that sailing jewel that he calls "one of the safest boats in the world". Practically "unsinkable. Of course, unless you board water. There is no other explanation." For the CEO of The Italian sea group, the shipwreck of Palermo would certainly have represented a zero risk if the correct maneuvers had been made if situations had not intervened that compromised the stability of the ship. "The boat - he noted - was at anchor. At some point the anchor loses her grip and she moves dragged by the wind pushing her by taking her in her belly. He pushes it for four minutes that we define as a wheel and puts it in the position where it sank. In these four minutes - and I take responsibility for what I say - the ship has already taken water."
To confirm Constantine's thesis there would be the video images, where you can see the tree vertically first all on and then off, except for the bulb in the head that takes energy from a battery. If the ship went black out, it means that it would have been the water on board that caused the short circuit.
To avoid the shipwreck, the CEO continued, "it was inappropriate to have, as I read, a party. Not that evening. The hull and blanket had to be secured by closing all the doors and doors, after putting the guests in the ship's meeting point as per the emergency procedure. Then turn on the engines and pull up the anchor or unhook it automatically, put the bow in the wind and send the keel down. The next morning they would start at zero damage." He remarked that "mistakes have been made." And he added: "Between the arrival of a storm and the boarding of water there is a world. A number of activities had to be done to avoid being in that situation. I as commander of the ship would have moved, but even if for some reason I had to stay there, I would have managed those weather conditions which then, let's face it, were not so crazy. After all, the commander of Sir Robert, next door, managed to manage everything without any problems."
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