There are some 64 fortunate people around today, who survived the sinking in the South Atlantic of the Canadian operated sail training ship Concordia, which it is assumed was knocked down in a squall in heavy weather. Excellent coverage of this can be found at our friends,
Sea-fever and
Amver.
Somebody did something right with their evacuation plans to ensure that the 44 students and their instructors abandoned the ship safely, as she lay on her beam ends before sinking.
Training and discipline might have helped. Top marks to their rescuers aboard the woodchip carriers Hokuetsu Delight and Crystal Pioneer, and the LNGC Sestao Knutsen, along with the co-ordinating Brazilian SAR teams, in an operation which saw the entire 64 fished out of their rafts from a sea described as…
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