Yeh, i never heard about it until today, or I vaguely remember it and kind of forgot since the news clip just showed the wrecked cars being offloaded.
I've worked most of my adult life on building ships as a structural welder and ships in general interest me. Day to day you sort of get used to the huge scale of these industrial behemoths, but not really. The size and scale of things just numbs your sensibility since as a person you are like an insect next to it. One day I actually got lost in a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. Panicked until I remembered to just read the bulkhead and deck numbers by hatches. Foreman came looking for me as I was coming up. Haha!
It pisses me off the crew let this amazing ship get ruined due to willful incompetency. It took thousands of hours by skilled craftsmen to create this marvel and only a handful of clowns to destroy it.
They let the chief assclown exit the country, too.
Korean. Family connections got him the job.
That was interesting about the dirty ballast water. I wouldn't think the guy would give a fuck if they spent some energy running the cleaning system. Unless that was somehow accounted to him. Maybe they keep track of it. I dunno, but I think it's odd that someone would go out of their way to save the company money by sabotaging the boat. Seems way too clever. Occam's razer and all that, I think he just fucked up the measurements.
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