p.3 Real Navigation Officer Reacts to Costa Concordia Q&A

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  @achunkofbutter · 5 years ago

  Thanks, nautical expert water man!

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  @Calimbandil87 · 5 years ago

  "You may have saved yourself from the sea, but I will really hurt you" That is a badass line! It's probably good that the captain is locked up and safe.

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  @Sovarium · 5 years ago

  Thank you, Mr. Nautical Expert Water Man!<br>We love you very much.

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  @Hiraeth-zq8ze · 4 years ago

  I’m an electrician, I don’t work on ships but I have seen emergency systems where emergency lights and some vital systems were run entirely off of battery power. They just have to be able to stay on for the time required by the NEC.

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  @davidodonovan1699 · 4 years ago

  &quot;It not like he had her bent over the steering wheel at the time.&quot;<br>Lol.<br>Very true though.<br>She may have been helping him destroy his marriage, but she didn&apos;t sink the ship and hence kill 32 people.

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  @icecold1805 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP8UTfkI32c&amp;t=1340">22:20</a> can we take a moment to acknowledge Int. historian&apos;s respectful attitude towards this whole ordeal? I mean, he ain&apos;t being subtle on his opinion of the Cpt. being a piece of shit, and even then, he still cares enough to worry about him being spammed or the girl and what not. This video was one I loved of him cuz he has humour and all, but when the time comes, he ain&apos;t fucking around with an event where 30 people died. he is respectful about it.

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  @Theegreygaming · 3 years ago (edited)

  I am not a ship engineer, served on a U.S. naval ship in a former life and only really knew the basics of how that worked. but I am, by trade a network engineer and in all my experience, the battery systems whether it&apos;s for a rack full of routers and switches, an entire datacenter packed full of servers, or an entire ship is pretty much how you described. the batteries provide power until the emergency generator comes fully online, and one of the tasks that the emergency generator also does is begins recharging the batteries in the event that it too is lost the batteries can give you the time to save what you can, and get out.<br>I&apos;m sure he&apos;s mistaking the warm up time for the generator, with a second outage. <br><br>as for placement, the ship I served on had its emergency generators (yes plural) were located either 1 or 2 decks above the main generators so there was a chance to get any flooding under control, it was also placed closer to the centerline so water couldn&apos;t flow directly into the space, but that is military design, not civilian design, sortof like comparing a hotel to a bunker.

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  @joshuarhuang · 1 year ago

  There&apos;s another Internet Historian video about the Suez Canal incident, would love to see your reaction

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  @NoFlu · 4 years ago

  Honestly, you gotta give it to Martin the Magician here.<br>Many people would have just ran off, but my dude took the time to let out the foot-lady before running off. <br>He&apos;s not the best guy, but not the worst. <br>Good man, that Martin

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  @flowergirl6242 · 5 years ago

  It would be cool to hear more about the Estonia cruise ship disaster - I heard they recently re-opened the case, and it would be nice to hear about it overall.

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  @AIextheguy · 5 years ago

  Just wanted to say, thanks for explaining why they repeatadely tried to get Schettino back on board. I was always confused why they didn&apos;t give up sooner, since he&apos;d seemed so insistent on not returning. The fact that as captain, he would be able to assist the people coordinating the rescue effort in terms of the ship&apos;s layout, makes a lot of sense and makes his decision to retreat all the worse. Cheers navigation bean

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  @somerandomguy5639 · 5 years ago

  Glad you came back my dude! Do you know Fredrik Knudsen? He did a video recently about the battle of May Island, and since there is so many marine navigational failures listed in the video, I figured it’d be interesting for you to have a take on the vid.

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