Seopati Nusantara Essay

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1.0 TYPE OF DISASTER Disaster is something that happens suddenly and causes a lot of bad effects and loss to the people or residents. It can be separated into two types which are natural disaster and man-made or technological disaster. Natural disaster, including flood, tornado, fire, storm and many others. However, displaced populations, industrial accidents, and transport accidents are three of the man-made or technological disaster. The storm is one of the natural disaster and the circumstance of bad weather with strong winds, thunders and even heavy rain. This was the main disaster cause the death of at least five hundred people in the MV Senopati Nusantara. Diagram 2 : Picture of the MV Senopati Nusantara MV Senopati Nusantara was the Indonesian ferry which was scheduled to sail from the port of Kumai in Borneo to port of Tanjung Emas in Semarang, Jaya Island. It was a Japanese-built vessel in 1990. The meaning of the name is known as …show more content…

The negligence of the local officials of the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) did not get the accurate prediction. However, the officials of the port still issued a sailing license and allow the vessel from sailing based on the not accurate weather report. Due to the no accurate report, the captain of the MV Senopati Nusantara, Wiratno Cendanawasih, has to undertake the responsibility because he was giving the responsibility to keep the passengers safe and out of danger. Thus, the captain was convicted three years in jail. The maritime disaster of the MV Senopati Nusantara was mainly caused by the stormy weather and the carelessness of the captain. Therefore, it caused about five hundred people dead. However, there was only one hundred and seventeen-seven people had been confirmed survive by the rescue activity in the first twenty-four hour. Following by the thirty-three victims had found few days after the disaster

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