_ Before last week I’d thought that the cruising world really had made things safer. I hadn’t heard of a serious accident since I’d been paying attention to things. That’s been about twenty years now. In addition I did research for a novel project of mine about the time period from 1915-1945. I looked for cruising accidents. I found the Lusitania in 1915 and the Morro Castle in 1934. But after World War II all I could find was the Andrea Doria in the 1950’s. After that it seemed like a wide open slate of not very spectacular disasters.
Had they really gotten smarter? Improved things? Gotten more technology? I was becoming convinced of it. One week ago today the Costa Concordia floundered on the sandy shoal of Giglio and erased all those decades of what had seemed to be real progress. Time stood still. We seemed to be back in the first half of the twentieth century again.
Had they really gotten smarter? Improved things? Gotten more technology? I was becoming convinced of it. One week ago today the Costa Concordia floundered on the sandy shoal of Giglio and erased all those decades of what had seemed to be real progress. Time stood still. We seemed to be back in the first half of the twentieth century again.