"Cruise ship Fiasco"

[ezdays]

I can understand with the fact that this ship is older, that they don't have a distribution panel that would meet today's standards. I can also understand why the backup generators are only designed to provide emergency power for evacuation purposes, assuming that the main generators would never fail. What I don't understand is that no one ever though "What if?", regarding a situation like this. In other words, why wasn't this ship updated to today's standards to deal with a situation like this?

I just wonder,let's assume that the crew had the training that Sumpter is talking about, but also had the cleverness of a McGiver or the A-Team, they would have found a way to get the generators going and a way to bypass the burned-out panel, if of course, that was the problem in the first place. Would a couple of experts dropped on deck from a helicopter have saved the day? We can only speculate.

Let's face it, the bottom line is everything in the corporate world. They saved a few million in update costs, but I'm guessing their losses will be in the billions by the time this is over. Ship cleanup and repairs, refunds, cost of getting passengers home, canceled cruises, lawsuits and lastly, a very tarnished reputation. Let's face it, their response was less than stellar.