justmestace
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It's entirely possible that he did expect some kind of problems..just not this magnitude. It's possible nature caught him with his pants down. All the equipment in the freakin world will NOT help you if nature changes its plans. No one can say a mistake was made here with any authority...no one.
As has been mentioned before...unless someone has been a Master on a ship in rough seas...no one got no credentials to second guess someone who has probably been doing this since many of us were in diapers.
Also, the captain of the Concordia violated company policy and marine safety regulations in doing what he did. Capt. Tom did NEITHER.
One of the reasons I even mentioned the Concordia was because of the way everyone jumped all over Carnival for having a captain who would do something so stupid.
In this case, Carnival avoided the storm completely, but Disney did not. They had the same kind of "storm information" but Carnival played it safe. I'm willing to bet that 90% (at least) of the people onboard Disney wished Captain Tom would have waited. To me, that's a mistake.