[Souled_Out]

First thing to do when experiencing loss of maneuvering power. Every sailor knows that.

[Ikeon]

Are you a seasoned sailor? do you have a commercial captains license?

Actually every sailor doesn't know that. Im a sailor and believe me, dropping anchor is NOT the first thing you do. It doesnt even make a top 7 things to do in a loss of power casualty..

How about,

Alerting the crew, ,

3 emergency blows to warn other ships to get out of the way,

send a mayday,

get control of the rudder by any and all means necessary,

clear the deck,

order emergency power cut to everything except steering,

order all shutdown safeties on the engines bypassed and get them started.

BTW, a silent Prayer was #1

the ship was 95,000 tons, at 8 knots they could have just as well jettisoned the anchor- it wouldnt stop that ship at 8 knots anyway.

[PIF]

First thing to do when experiencing loss of maneuvering power. Every sailor knows that.
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Sailors on Tupperware would never drop anchor at speed. If they want to keep the anchor and winch attached to the boat. The anchor would fly over the bottom until it caught on something, which in turn would yank the boat around, capsizing the boat & ripping the whole anchor system off the boat.

On a 95,000 ton ship doing 7-10kts, its a joke. All it would do is slow the boat a bit over the next mile or so, when it would lose way.