Experts Recreate The Conditions That Caused The Capsizing Of A Modern Ferry | Disasters At Sea

The capsizing of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise in 1987 killed 193 passengers and was Britain’s worst maritime disaster in decades. Experts recreate the conditions of the ship in order to conclude what caused the ship’s tragic end.
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[@devonthemaskeddevonaire9471]

remembering 3 people i knew who lost their lives that day, and all the other souls lost.

[@davidb3172]

The water that came through the open bow doors was subject to the free surface effect. They tried and failed to prosecute shoreside management. Bow doors now have an interlocked mechanism with indicator lights in the wheelhouse.

[@jonbonesmahomes7472]

Also How is it possible that noone on the shore didnt see the door were opened when the ship was leaving the port?

[@davidb3172]

@@jonbonesmahomes7472 Have you seen a ferry leave port? Go astern, then turn around and leave for the open sea. Someone would have to be in the right place to see the bow door open and by the time they get to a telephone box to report it the ship was on her side.

[@jonbonesmahomes7472]

@@davidb3172 yeah..you could be right..

[@adrianelward2614]

12 Seconds in and I am just coming out of the Escape Hatch having searched the Engine room, still vivid memories that don't go away .

[@ShredCo]

What?

[@zew1414]

Yeah...huh!? Explain?

[@annewallace8744]

Can u explain what you mean

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

@@annewallace8744 id have to assume they were in the ship or something, unless they're lying. not many ways to tell though.

[@AFV85]

This ferry I've been on! It's kinda a special ship to me someway because it's got my Surname plastered right across it! It'd be good to see the full thing this Quest channel is good for teasing! But they must think with doing that people will watch our channel or something but don't work like that as these video's aren't on the Quest documentaries!

[@ShredCo]

It's odd that there were there no crew on the cargo deck of a large ship to report this.

[@JozefMachiels]

Ik was een van de duikers, wij hebben 12 mense uit het wrack gehaald i neen watertemperatuur van 4 ! Graaden selsius.

[@1983quinni]

Pretty sure this was the boat I was due to be on as baby but the car broke down so we missed it.. rip all

[@nepriandries]

Thank sharing video my friend like 👍👣🔔🔔⚒⚒⚒👣👣👣

[@rodolfoayalajr.8589]

Rip Amen 🙏.

[@charlieb308]

Why would you have doors open?

[@EpicJoshua314]

The crew was heavily pressured to leave and arrive precisely on-time and they would get dinged by the company if they were even a few minutes late. There was a man who was supposed to closed the doors when the Harbour Stations call was made but he was asleep and missed this call. At the company, people operated on the basis 'well it's not my duty to close the doors' and unless the bridge crew was informed that the bow doors were still open, they would assume that they're closed. Very sad.

[@994206]

To let out the exhaust fumes on the car deck. Believe me, that was a common practice.

[@994206]

To let out the car fumes. A frequent occurrence, on the English Chanel.

[@994206]

These are naval architects, & non of them have mentioned the spring (very high) tide on that fateful night. The overall cause of the disaster. End of.

[@jonhall4717]

Spring tides are hardly a rare occurrence... They're every fortnight after all. They meant the forward ballast was heavier than on a neap tide, sure, but hardly the "overall cause", just a contributing factor.

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

@@jonhall4717 They?..

[@jonhall4717]

There are lots of spring tides. A few days every fortnight. The causes of this disaster came down to complacent practices and a company putting profits over safety.

[@Sevisstillalive]

Why not the South korea failure of saving hundreds of lives off the coast of korea.

[@eddieskhan]

1st view 🧐

[@zew1414]

This is the ship on which the jackasses left the front door open?

[@994206]

It happened more than once, with no previous issues. Just add a very high tide. The rest is history.