No, there was a larger failure: whoever designed the control system such that a single loose wire on a single terminal block (!) could take down the entire steering system for a 91,000 ton ship.

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DannyBee 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They didn't.

If you read the report they were misusing this pump to do fuel supply when it wasn't for that. And it was non redundant when fuel supply pumps are.

Its like someone repurposing a husky air compressor to power a pneumatic fire suppression system and then saying the issue is someone tripping over the cord and knocking it out.

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bragr 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's a 3rd failure: the failure to install/upgrade dolphins that could deflect a modern containership, despite the identified need for such. That proposed project seems cheap in retrospect.

	▲	nightpool 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, 100%. Lots of failures across the board here. Especially with large ships and how many different nations they might be registered in, I can't imagine it's easy to have a lot of regulatory oversight into their construction, mechanical inspection or maintenance schedules. I'm curious how modern ports handle this problem, feels like it could cause a ton of issues beyond just catastrophic ones like this one.