Ferry sinking

I am truly sorry that so many people died in yet another ferry accident. Most of us can remember the other horrors: the Estonia, the Herald of Free Enterprise, and other almost too numerous to list around Asia. But there is a difference between bad luck, poor seamanship and outright idiots who should be imprisoned. In this case one look at the ship makes it clear that the top decks were added later to increase the capacity of the ship. I cannot believe that it was done with adequate consideration to bouyancy and seaworthiness. Most likely for outright greed: how to keep an obsolete ferry profitable. Only too often do we see the outmoded and outright dangerous shuffled to the Third World. The ship originally had a traditional seaworthy line too it, far different than the boxes that pass as ships today, dependent on all manner of electronics and stabilizers to avoid wallowing like pigs, even dangerously.

And where do people congrgate when it is hot and stuffy below? On deck, or at least higher up where there is a view and more comfort. In this case, precisely where they did not need the extra weight. We learned from the Estonia and Herald disasters that eevn small amounts of water shipping in can case a drastic destabilization of even a well designed and modern ship. Any extra instability in this case would surely be deadly.