There Is A Lot Of Planning For Evacuations

[EVALUATOR]

There has been a lot of discussion about evacuating a ship since the Concordia incident.

 

 

 

People have asked sincere questions including, but not limited to, the following…

 

• · Why is a muster station inside vs. outside?
  
• · Where is your life boat if your muster station is inside?
  
• · Should women and children board life boats before men?
  
• · How do you know where to go if your muster station is inaccessible?
  
• · What kind of training does crew get in emergency training?
  
• · Are boats better than chutes and rafts?
  
• · What if the ship is leaning?
  
• · How long does it take to evacuate the ship?
  
• · What if you are handicapped and need assistance?
  

Here are a few links to various studies on evacuation design, and the anticipated problems during evacuations.

There are many more, but it’s clear from just these that a lot of planning goes into emergency evacuations.

 

Almost all of these studies understand that LEADERSHIP and COMMUNICATION are paramount when an incident requires mustering and abandonment.

 

 

 

Ship Evacuation Simulation: Challenges and Solutions

Emergency Evacuation: How Better Interior Design Can Improve Passenger Flow

Ship Evacuation Experiment: More Than 2,300 Passengers Take Part in 'Live' Assembly Drill at Sea

 

Evacuability of Passenger Ships at Sea

 

Human factors management of passenger ship evacuation

 

Microscopic Simulation of Evacuation Processes on Passenger Ships

 

STUDY ON EVALUATION OF ESCAPE ROUTE IN PASSENGER SHIPS BY EVACUATION SIMULATION AND FULL-SCALE TRIALS

 

ITF CRUISE SHIP SAFETY POLICY

[nycruiser80]

Very interesting to see this. Too bad the mainstream media would site these. Instead Fox News ran a story that goes through all the negatives the Costa Concordia had from her past. They even quoted posts and reviews from Cruise Critic.

 

Another review posted on the website “cruisecritics.com” claimed the ship did not conduct its safety drill until “near the end of the cruise.” The drills are required within 24 hours of the cruise’s start.

“Amazing!” the unnamed post read. “Smoking is allowed in several public areas on one side of the rooms, but pervades whole areas, irrespective of health, safety, children etc. I will not return to Costa to experience this again.”

 

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/01/17/website-reviews-show-slew-past-safety-concerns-raised-by-costa-concordia/#ixzz1jrgVwbp8

 

Fox News is clearly not fair and balanced. If they were fair and balanced they would reference all the work and research that has been done on the subject of ship evacuation. Why didn't they reference the simulated full ship evacuation that took place on Royal Caribbean's Jewel of the Seas that the OP has a link to? Instead they are sensationalism and one sided like many news organizations.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/01/17/website-reviews-show-slew-past-safety-concerns-raised-by-costa-concordia/