Re:Why doesn't every cruise ship have a overboard detection ...
by dghlsakjg on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:41PM
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Boats above a certain size don't recover the victim themselves, they launch a rescue boat for that. Much easier than recovery on a pleasure craft.
I used to captain a tall ship, and that's the way that every one of us did it. It's way too hard and slow to maneuver even a 100 ft. boat to a MOB. We could heave to and have the rescue boat in the water in under 120 seconds.
If you go over without a life-jacket and a light, like most cruise ship passengers, your chances of recovery are almost nil. It's kind of a miracle that they find anyone at all. I wonder if the statistics cited also include MOB events at the dock, where if you survive the fall, your chances are pretty high.
I used to captain a tall ship, and that's the way that every one of us did it. It's way too hard and slow to maneuver even a 100 ft. boat to a MOB. We could heave to and have the rescue boat in the water in under 120 seconds.
If you go over without a life-jacket and a light, like most cruise ship passengers, your chances of recovery are almost nil. It's kind of a miracle that they find anyone at all. I wonder if the statistics cited also include MOB events at the dock, where if you survive the fall, your chances are pretty high.