Cruise Ship Incident

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Matterhorn Fan

I heard that water came in on deck 9...

That was pool water.

Actually, this supports my theory of inertia doing the majority of the damage. Pool water was seen flowing down the stairs and elevators. The stair towers and elevators are forward and abaft of the pools. If it was simply a matter of a tilt to one side, the water from the pools would simply have gone over the side of the ship. For the water to flow perpendicular to the angle of tilt would mean that there were other forces at play. The list was caused by the ship making a sudden 180 degree turn at high speed. Inertia would cause people and objects to move away from the turn at a tangent. Unlike planes, which bank into a turn, ships list away from a turn - i.e. a turn to starboard will cause the ship to list to port. The combination of tilt and inertia would make the list seem much worse than it was.