Report released on Condor ferry crash

[timbartlett]

Is anyone able to currently view the report online - or has the report been removed?
All the links, even typing the website manually, returns a message 'this page cannot be displayed'.

Has anyone downloaded the pdf file they could send please?
Send me a pm and I will provide an e-mail address if necessary.

http://www.beamer-france.org/BanqueDocument/pdf_289.pdf works fine for me.

 

[DogWatch]

The problem is how slow would you have to go on the ferry to be safe? If you dropped from 37 to 20 knots I'm not sure it would have made any difference to the final impact.

Henry

Not a problem, you go at speed that allows you to avoid a collision based on how far you can see. If visibility is 500yds, you go at a speed allowing you to think and stop within that.

 

[BrendanS]

Now you've done it. Hundreds of posts on how far you can see, and how quickly you can stop

 

[DogWatch]

Nevetheless, the fishing boat apparently had no radar lookout either and was in the path of a fast ferry running to timetable, which means its captain shares blame

This is the second such comment in this thread, trawler skipper should have known the ferry timetable and exact route.

Really, because if this is what people are suggesting then we are all culpable unless we enter every timetabled ship movement in a log before setting out. This is just infeasible.

 

[DogWatch]

Now you've done it. Hundreds of posts on how far you can see, and how quickly you can stop

Sorry, I thought it too obvious, I wasn't sure if I was being had?

 

[guernseyman]

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