Usually a ship's Captain is ultimately responsible for all decisions. It's strange that the company wouldve routed it this way though. This is like the halfway point of a very LONG journey. A responsible Captain would decline this route before ever leaving.
Either go around the Cape of Good Hope, or load a different ship.
I wonder if this has ever been done before? Coming up on 48 hours. How will they get underway again? Lol upstaging Iran.
It's interesting that they have egyptian "pilots" available. A private ship (say a yacht or something) is REQUIRED to have them on board piloting or commanding the ship. It also takes 2 days to do so on private ships, because the pilots have "usual" working hours and you "stay the night" in a lake/port around the middle.
Big company cargo ships can do it in one 16h stretch, all through the night, but cannot waive the required egyptian pilot as far as I know.
So it's at least a double fuckup, egyptian's Suez authority and obviously the ship captain.
Was it her fault? The ship is 100' longer than max allowable. It ran aground.
You answered your own question when you said she attempted to maneuver a ship 100 ft longer then that which was allowed for the area
So that WAS her fault. Ok.
Usually a ship's Captain is ultimately responsible for all decisions. It's strange that the company wouldve routed it this way though. This is like the halfway point of a very LONG journey. A responsible Captain would decline this route before ever leaving.
Either go around the Cape of Good Hope, or load a different ship.
I wonder if this has ever been done before? Coming up on 48 hours. How will they get underway again? Lol upstaging Iran.
It's interesting that they have egyptian "pilots" available. A private ship (say a yacht or something) is REQUIRED to have them on board piloting or commanding the ship. It also takes 2 days to do so on private ships, because the pilots have "usual" working hours and you "stay the night" in a lake/port around the middle.
Big company cargo ships can do it in one 16h stretch, all through the night, but cannot waive the required egyptian pilot as far as I know.
So it's at least a double fuckup, egyptian's Suez authority and obviously the ship captain.
This is useful detail. Thanks!