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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • They are both in the wrong here.

    Guy being passed should be in the left lane. He is filming with his phone while driving and is speeding (technically).

    Seymour is speeding faster. Is undertaking, while undertaking is not illegal, it is a driving convention that people expect because that’s how people are taught. People generally are doing checks in their middle and right mirrors, anyone on the left is less likely to be seen.






  • The main thing covered is the actual chain of events from the “black box” (my word for it) transcribed from the voice recordings from the report. Basically there was a lack of training, the crew didn’t figure out that the ship was still on autopilot until it was way too late.

    The Crew had control of the throttle but not control of the helm direction. So when the crew thought they were doing a full reverse they were actually making the problem worse. The crew went up to 100% throttle because they thought they had changed helm direction but in reality they we’re just getting to the reef quicker because autopilot still was in control of the direction of the ship.

    They didn’t follow procedure didn’t check if the autopilot was off and didn’t discover this until after they had hit the reef. There is way more detail then that but basically that is the TLDR.