Hearing that after exhausting every option to save the ship, everyone of the crew got off and to safety, is a relief. Thank you for also covering stories with better endings instead of just the horrifying disasters.
What is amazing to me, but also relatable, is that with all the sensors and technology onboard, the first inklings of disaster are in the gut of an experienced crewman who thinks, "That doesn't feel right."
In the mid 1960s on a WW2 LST (Landing Ship, Tank) we barely survived a typhoon in the region of Taiwan. We had over 20 cracks across the midships main deck plus broken plates in the bottom ballast tank area requiring us to dry dock in Sasebo, and a couple months later in the old Saigon shipyard that was next to the zoo. I was too young/ignorant to 'know fear' at the time, it was just VERY exciting, I wouldn't want to experience that again as an older more mature man, the angry sea is an absolute monster.
There is no worse feeling for an experienced seaman than "something isn't right with her, she's not used to behave like this.." I speak from experience.
Your channel should have millions of subscribers. Thank you for the factual way you deliver your stories, not playing any annoying music in the background and giving us both metric and imperial versions
Thank goodness for the professionalism of the Master and his crew, that no loss of life occured. My son in law is a Master on a container ship, and the responsibility on his shoulders is huge. Big respect to the Merchant Navies of the world as a former CPO in the Royal Navy