_ This was why I asked the question about lifeboats during the virtual Transatlantic cruise for the Queen Mary 2 last week. I wanted to know what training the crew had been given. One of the respondents was shocked, saying that I was silly not to trust the cruise lines. But this problem with lifeboats goes back at least one hundred years. The Titanic didn’t have enough. The Lusitania, like the Costa Concordia, listed badly. It made it difficult to launch them. You’d think during the past one hundred years more progress would have been made on this one issue.