Kristina Regina in collision

[Timsen]

In the night of May 28 the cruise ship "Kristina Regina" was in collision in the Baltic. The ship had just passed the Kiel Canal cmoing from the Northsea. The collision was casued by fog.

[Chris Allport]

Collisions are never caused by fog!

[Jens Heri]

Kristina Regina collided with a barge and suffered only minor damaged.

Kristina Regina crew spotted the barge on the radar but were not able to avoid the collision. Cause??.

[chewy496]

Vox wrote:

Kristina Regina collided with a barge and suffered only minor damaged.

Kristina Regina crew spotted the barge on the radar but were not able to avoid the collision. Cause??.  

 

 

Incompetence!

[Niklas Enggaard Zalewski]

If they had followed rule 19 they would not have collided with the barge.

[Charles McAllister]

I don't know enough about this incident to have an opinion, but there seems to be a lot of discussion over the application of Rule 19.

http://www.nautinst.org/colregs/letters/letters01.htm

http://www.pbo.co.uk/pbo/colregs_rule19.html

It would be good to hear the opinions of ships' officers on this subject.

[chewy496]

charmctug wrote:
I don't know enough about this incident to have an opinion, but there seems to be a lot of discussion over the application of Rule 19.

http://www.nautinst.org/colregs/letters/letters01.htm

http://www.pbo.co.uk/pbo/colregs_rule19.html

It would be good to hear the opinions of ships' officers on this subject.

In my LIMITED experience as a Deck Cadet i'd just like to point you to part B of Rule 19... enough said really?  I wouldn't of thought she was doing a "safe speed" if they had detected the barge on the radar and were still unable to avoid it.

Read up on Rule 6 (Safe Speed), especially part B.

Of course I don't know what speed she was doing and only have read the information in the post so far but I understand the commercial pressures Masters are under.  But still, as OOW I'm sure I would of said something.