Cruise Ship Incident

[Alex]

Originally Posted by JWBear

As far as emergency procedures… they were followed, and avoiding a panic is one of the things the crew is trained to do. No one wants a ship full of panicked passengers. Things would have gotten real ugly. From all accounts, the crew performed admirably.

I agree with most of what you say. But an unexpected 15 degree list is certainly enough to throw someone over a railing (especially if they were already leaning over it looking at the water).

I would think that one of the first things they'd want to do is get a head count which would give them an idea of wheather anybody might be in the water (or injured to a point that they couldn't respond to the call).

I won't say proper prodedure wasn't followed (I don't know nearly enoug), but as a thought experiment it seems weird that they wouldn't try to get all the passengers organized for a count, and to aid in triage of more minor injuries.