Ships are like trains and semi trucks, they operate 24/7/365...
Additionally there were 2 Baltimore harbor pilots on board as is standard procedure. The ship is in their control while transiting the harbor. Barring any system outages the MV was at special sea detail and succumbed to systems failure at a critical point in the transit. Shi3os these days have a “black box” and it has been removed for analysis.
Anybody heard from the DEI harbor master yet? You know the one with all the magical degrees in HR and seminars... but never had a job involving the operation of a major harbor, let alone a marina?
Of course. I have no professional tolerance for these things, never mind the social aspect.
What I am saying is that any endeavor in which administrators are being pressured (or even worse, voluntarily laboring) to fulfill DEI quotas, by its very nature, it ensures that less qualified people are getting to the point of that particular spear.
In this case, it could be a Pilot. Or it could be the mechanic who worked on some electrical component. Or it could be the person who maintains the scheduling and records. Or it could be the person who conducts training, or just as bad, the person determining actual competency.
And so on. You know what I mean.
At every step of the way there may be only a marginal loss of competency. Just for argument’s sake, let’s just say there is a five percent decrease in average competency for someone who was ended up in a position because of a DEI quota.
I believe that cumulative loss in overall competency becomes critical if someone at every step above has decreased competency.
That might not mean much in some areas, but if it is a pilot of an airliner or a maritime pilot in a busy port, those are people we “don’t allow” to make mistakes, because even a minuscule error rate can result in large losses in life and/or property, as it did in this case.
And DEI/Affirmative Action quotas, by their very nature, introduce the greater possibility of error.