Car carrier sunk off Rotterdam

Well i got that wrong.
i guess they didn't want to risk the Oost Gat & went the long way round. picked the pilot up off Zeebrugge & proceeding to the Scheldte

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If i were to drive my car very hard around a left hand bend and i rolled it, it would roll away from the bend, ie it would list to starbord before rolling?

would it lean in or out with rudder full stbd rudder

Perilous Escape

All of the above factors can shorten the amount of time that the crew has to escape a RoRo before she sinks but, once the alarm is given, abandoning a RoRo that is listing can be dangerous. In 2006 the crew of the RoRo vessel Cougar Ace was able to escape the ship after she grounded on a reef in Alaska but, because of the 60-degree list, a member of the salvage team slipped and fell to his death on the vessel’s upper deck.

Even if the crew can maneuver themselves across a heavily listing deck, the high sides of many modern RoRo’s pose another problem: the higher a lifeboat is stowed above the waterline the more difficult it can be to launch, especially if the ship is listing badly.

These factors indicate that RoRo’s are highly sophisticated ships which require very careful handling. This makes them exceptionally vulnerable to human error.
 
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Not a British national news story as wasnt in our waters and neither ship British - whether any Brit nationals involved they probably don't know. As ex MN my thoughts are with the poor fellas who died in the cold North Sea. Humour is not very appropriate in the circumstances.
 
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