(April 15, 2013 at 7:54 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Poor design, shoddy construction and a lot of damned bad luck.
Actually, no. It's design was as good as any of the era and well above what was considered to be adequate. It's construction was also well above standard and probably as good as any. It's silly to say she would not meet 2010 Safety of Life at Sea standards and therefore a poor design for her time.
As it happens, she probably would have survived the damage that sank the 2006 Costia Concordia last year.
But very bad luck indeed.
