More than half of the passengers from the damaged cruise ship Pacific
Star (former Carnival Tropical) flew back to Auckland last night with
some vowing never to return to sea.

The ship sailed through gale-force winds and swells of up to 10 metres
shortly after leaving Auckland last Tuesday despite warnings from
MetService of storm-force winds - winds of more than 50 knots.Wow! Why leave safe harbor at all heading into a 50-knot wind? Putting
passengers in harm's way that way appears negligent to me. What use is
all the modern meteorological data and satellite maps if a captain
would rather temp fate and, at the very least, have a very sick ship.

-- Rik


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Rik Brown
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