Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "The Drydock - Episode 223 (Part 1)" video.

There are over 300 large cruise ships with an average of 3000 passengers and 1500 crew each and they operate 52 weeks per year. Despite that massive scale, there hasn't been a single death in the last decade (excluding things like Covid and suicide). That makes cruise ships the safest form of transport, safer than trains or flying and far safer than cars.
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A shipyard in Hobart invented the large truck carrying fast catamaran in 1990, this was widely copied, and a shipyard in Perth, Australia developed the idea into a trimaran. Around the turn of the century, the Royal Australian Navy was short of fast transports for the East Timor operation, so they leased a fast catamaran from Incat, the Hobart company and it used it to shuttle troops and vehicles to Timor. Other navies noticed how successful this commercial ferry was in naval operation and either built their own, or got Incat to build them. As ferries they run between 35 and 55 knots, but naval ones are usually slower.
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@notshapedforsportivetricks2912 I had a look at MV Triton on Wikipedia and while the ship found some use, that type of design wasn't going anywhere.
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@matchesburn Wow, please calm down, there are more important things to worry about than insulting people on the internet. Anyway, the incident you refer to happened over a decade ago, look it up on Wikipedia. :)
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Apart from being designed by expert naval architects, cruise ships have an obvious safety margin. If the weather gets really rough and they can't avoid a storm, they always empty the 3 or 4 swimming pools they have on deck 14. That gives them vastly more stability in just 5 minutes.
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