LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Same old story on Annabella


Sir – I refer to the editorial comment concerning theAnnabella case (February 2008). It is a shame that the owners/operators


seem not to have been aware of Lloyd’s Register’s Rules for the Certification of Freight Container Securing Arrangements, first introduced in 1980. When these were developed they took into account the ISO


Standards for container racking and crushing and the consequent requirements for stackweight control and strength of lashing and securing arrangements. In the subsequent decade I remember approving stowage and securing systems for a large number of ships using relatively simple computer programs and our feedback was that the results were


Explorer identifies key issues


Sir – I was much absorbed by the excellent account on pages 16 - 18 (February 2008,Te Naval Architect) by Andy White, FRINA, of his alarming and very close [escape] from shipwreck as a passenger on Explorer in November 2007. Andy White identifies the considerable disadvantages of the standard issue box shaped foam-filled lifejackets. I quite agree. In my experience the mostly unfit, oſten obese, and oſten elderly passengers as may be found on popular cruiseships these


days, when at Muster for Emergency Drill are clearly uncomfortable and much impeded by such lifejackets and that in the comfort of the air conditioned Muster Location! How such passengers would manage to negotiate corridors and gangways defies imagination. Te Zodiacs were crucial and the load


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carrying capacity and manouverability of such craſt was clearly of significance but it is notable that the Zodiac drivers lacked understanding of how to use them to tow and steer.


Serious questions must be raised as to the


optimal type of passenger lifejacket for issue on cruiseships and also as to the design of lifeboats which, apart from now being made from GRP, show little advance on the philoso- phy of the traditional wooden clinker lifeboat of two centuries ago. Surely it is time for a re- think. Perhaps an evolution along the lines of rigid inflatable boats.


Dr Rodney Pell (by e-mail)


satisfactory. Modern computer programs would presumably have improved quality analysis further. I see nothing in your report that we would


not have expected to see implemented nearly 30 years ago. Why do people never learn?


A J Williams MRINA (by e-mail)


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