Would you get on a boat which is listing?

[midnight rambler]

Not a chance in Hell that I would, yet over 200 people chose to.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/12/russia-boat-idUSLDE76B0HM20110712

[Canadian-guerilla]

i guess some countries have a different defination of " safe travel "

http://www2.2space.net/images/upl_newsImage/1248276613.jpg

[Sparky]

I don't think it was listing when they got on.

[Olmstein]

Only if I had my PMs with me.

[midnight rambler]

I don't think it was listing when they got on.

The linked article stated the boat was listing before it got underway.


Spokesman Vladimir Markin said investigators were looking into why the boat was listing to the right when it left port.

[Sparky]

The linked article stated the boat was listing before it got underway.

I stand corrected, sir. So to answer your original question, "Not bloody likely!" Particularly since it was a tourist boat, which implies there was no pressing need to get on board. But I can assure you, if I got on that listing boat, I would have had a "heightened awareness" the whole time. The thing is, Russian people are probably used to seeing half-assed operations all the time, so maybe they thought nothing of it.

[midnight rambler]

The thing is, Russian people are probably used to seeing half-assed operations all the time, so maybe they thought nothing of it.

I've witnessed that myself first hand, so yes, Russians do think nothing at all of living out there on the edge. It was a very enlightening experience.

[keehah]

I recall on a significant amount of the Asian island sinkings that kill a hundred or so at a time that passengers reported the boat was listing before they started.

If schools allowed commonsense to rule instread of teaching to blindly follow authority, think of all the children that would be alive today.


Edit to add:

http://newsmixture.com/2011/07/12/russian-boat-disaster-leaves-100-presumed-dead.html

Investigators said that the ageing craft with a capacity of 140 passengers but carrying around 200 had engine trouble even before setting out on the cruise and was seen to be listing to one side before the disaster.

“Even before it left (its home port) Kazan, the boat had a problem with the main left engine, but went out to the cruise nevertheless,” transport investigators for the Volga region said on the official website.

[Joe King]

The linked article stated the boat was listing before it got underway.It does? The word "listing" is only in the article once, that I can see.
The only sentence I see in the article mentioning any listing is this one. Which implies it started listing during a storm after it left port.
The Bulgaria sank within minutes about three km (two miles) from shore during a cruise on Sunday after listing onto its right side in a thunderstorm. Authorities said 79 of the 208 people on board had been rescued.


Someone must have edited the article or something.

[midnight rambler]

It does? The word "listing" is only in the article once, that I can see.
The only sentence I see in the article mentioning any listing is this one. Which implies it started listing during a storm after it left port.
The Bulgaria sank within minutes about three km (two miles) from shore during a cruise on Sunday after listing onto its right side in a thunderstorm. Authorities said 79 of the 208 people on board had been rescued.


Someone must have edited the article or something.

The article has been edited. There's info in it now that wasn't before, and that quote is now gone.