{"id":128,"date":"2012-01-22T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cruiseastute.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2012-07-26T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T08:30:20","slug":"carnival-group-to-review-safety-after-concordia-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cruiseastute.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/22\/carnival-group-to-review-safety-after-concordia-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Group To Review Safety After Concordia Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_44\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruiseastute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/concordia-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44\" title=\"Costa Concordia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruiseastute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/concordia-6.png\" alt=\"Costa Concordia\" width=\"405\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cruiseastute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/concordia-6.png 405w, https:\/\/cruiseastute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/concordia-6-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Costa Concordia<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-dt\">Carnival Corporation which runs the Costa Cruises line along with other big players such as P&amp;O, Cunard and Princess has today announced that it is reviewing safety procedures in light of the Concordia disaster.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Mickey Arison, chairman and CEO of Carnival Corporation defended their safety record as being &#8220;excellent&#8221;, but admitted that the tragedy had &#8220;called into question&#8221;\u00a0their <span>emergency response procedures. He went on to say &#8220;<\/span><span>While I have every confidence in the\u00a0 safety of\u00a0 our vessels and the professionalism of our crews, this review\u00a0 will evaluate all\u00a0 practices and procedures to make sure that this kind\u00a0 of accident doesn\u2019t happen\u00a0 again&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Retired U.S. Navy Captain\u00a0James Hunn will conduct the revue. Captain Hunn is currently the company\u2019s senior vice president of\u00a0 Maritime Policy &amp; Compliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>cruiseastute.com says &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Modern cruise ships are exceptionally safe &#8211;\u00a0they have to be <\/span><span>designed, built, operated and maintained\u00a0under international\u00a0 law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, as ships get larger, evacuating more passengers is obviously going to be more problematic. The largest ships such as Oasis Of The Seas can carry over 6,000 passengers and\u00a0it can be a\u00a0struggle even to disembark them during port visits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It would also seem that some lines are not conducting evacuation drills with the passengers for up to 24 hours after sailing\u00a0(the legal limit). This is clearly not good practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We also question the wisdom of storing lifejackets in cabins. Sending everyone down to their cabins is the last thing you want to do when a ship is taking on water.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnival Corporation which runs the Costa Cruises line along with other big players such as P&amp;O, Cunard and Princess has today announced that it is reviewing safety procedures in light of the Concordia disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,4],"tags":[17,11,10,12,46,18,6],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-concordia-disaster","category-news","category-ships","tag-carnival","tag-concordia","tag-costa","tag-disaster","tag-news","tag-safety","tag-ship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Carnival Group To Review Safety After Concordia Disaster - 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