{"id":17568,"date":"2011-10-14T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T05:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=17568"},"modified":"2011-10-06T21:10:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T02:10:24","slug":"canadian-report-on-the-sinking-of-the-sail-train-ship-concordia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/canadian-report-on-the-sinking-of-the-sail-train-ship-concordia\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Report On The Sinking Of The Sail Train Ship Concordia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"m10f0003_photo_1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/m10f0003_photo_1.jpg\" alt=\"m10f0003_photo_1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"422\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the spring of 2010 the sail training vessel <em>Concordia<\/em> was capsized and lost off the coast of Brazil. The crew was rescued and the blame was fixed on an unforeseeable microburst. The Canadian Transport Safety Board has now issued a report covering the incident, which makes for interesting reading.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of points we take away from a quick perusal.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Concordia was probably shy of ultimate stability.<\/li>\n<li>The data on wind strength indicates at most 50 knots of breeze, nothing like a true micro burst, and more in keeping with a squall in the tropics.<\/li>\n<li>Open ports\/doors on the lee side allowed downflooding, which doomed the vessel (side opening doors and windows are a poor choice on seagoing vessels).<\/li>\n<li>In our opinion this was the result of poor seamanship (the aforementioned openings, lack of action to change course down wind or shorten sail early on).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full report can be read<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsb.gc.ca\/eng\/rapports-reports\/marine\/2010\/m10f0003\/m10f0003.asp\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"m10f0003_photo_5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/m10f0003_photo_5.jpg\" alt=\"m10f0003_photo_5.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"336\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring of 2010 the sail training vessel Concordia was capsized and lost off the coast of Brazil. The <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/canadian-report-on-the-sinking-of-the-sail-train-ship-concordia\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}