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Loss Of A Ship Essay

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VIEWPOINT Capsizing one of the worst nightmare of the seafarers. Capsizing of a ship refers to a situation where the vessel at sea list to one side to such an extent that it’s not able to upright or regain its original position, leading to tipping over of the vessel in water and making it unsafe for both crew and machinery onboard. The ship’s sinking may lead to any sort of major accidents that may affect the marine environment it will also affect the life of the community lives near the shore that depends on the marine life for their income for their expenses. If the problem becomes severe, this might lead to human casualties. But some accidents whether we like it or not cause many loss of life. MV Rabaul Queen, a Papua New Guinea flagged passenger ferry or some other called it Ro-Ro or Roll-on, Roll-off owned by the Papua New Guinea company Rabaul Shipping and Operated by Star Ships, Papua New Guinea’s largest passenger ship operator. A ship designed to transport passengers from one place to another. A ship built in Japan with a length of 155 ft and a gross …show more content…

There is no specific details about the ship on how big it is or its passenger capacity. Therefore I conclude that the ship may be sunk due to bad weather condition such us big waves (5 meters) and strong winds. Also it is difficult to search for the survivors because of the bad weather and because of the given information on how many the passengers were onboard on the time that the ship capsize. According to Ronald Cueto, 4th Engineer in Marlow Navigation, with the non fully detailed story and updates I can tell and assumed that this vessel had lost its ship's stability due to bad weather, and from its details it didn't mentioned the gross tonnage of the ship so most probably the ship was overloaded. It also mentioned in the report that the number of passengers aboard the ship were not sure if it is correct or

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