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Thanks for the link to that book. I don't know if it's the because of this catastrophe, but it looks to be unobtanium at the moment. Will have to find it in the library.

> lack of redundancy

This is what I am surprised at from many angles. It seems to me that the ship, the port (in the form of lack of tugboats), and the bridge (in the form of lack of secondary protection of the pillars) all had a lack of redundancy and secondary options.




The author GPLed it and put it on the internet at one point: http://martrans.org/documents/2006/safety/The%20_tankership_...


Oh, nice. Thanks for the heads up there and again for the book reference.





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