[grania]

I'd assume the thinking for cargo ships might be the same as for cruise ships. It often seems that it's nothing can go wrong until it does go wrong.

In 2008, I took a July cruise out of NYC. There was a hurricane hugging the SE US coast. The ship with its incredible navigation and weather information stayed east of it. Joaquim had that weird unpredictable path. I could see how a ship with a combination of mechanical difficulties and an unpredictable storm was at some point going to get caught up in a storm.

[Ready4Freddy]

At the point in time and location the storm wasn’t ‘unpredictable’; the ship pretty much sailed right into it or at least very close.

It wasn’t until later that the storm started on its veer-to-the-east path.