NavList:

Hello Patty, you wrote:
" I was on the ship,  the pools were emptied about halfway, the videos
are misleading.  The  pools have a wide top level which in photos and
videos looks like the  deck.  These have about a foot of water and then
the center area which  looks like the pool in photos, which is deeper.
Also the water on the  starboard side came up to the deck with the
lifeboats hanging above, the  seventh deck. Do you think maybe the list
was more severe than  reported?

I'd love to get an expert opinion.  I was staring out a  9-ft window on
starboard side, deck 16 and looked only at ocean.  I had  to look up to
the top of the window to see the horizon.  The reason  there weren't
more injuries is because most people were sleeping, because we  had a
7am port call and half the passengers met for excursions at 6:30  am."

Thanks for your first-hand report. Fascinating... and damned  scary.

Do you remember how far you were from that 9-ft window? Were you  seated,
standing, hanging onto something? Specifically, how far above your eye  level was
the top of the window as measured from the deck, and how far were you  from
the window? With that information, we could work out the roll angle. I've  seen
estimates ranging from at least 15 degrees to as high as 38 degrees. 
Anything in that range is dangerous for the passengers, but the high end is  close to
catastrophic. Of course, the ship has plenty of instrumentation that  records
this data, and we will know for sure soon enough.

-FER
42.0N  87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars 


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