Death on the High Seas

摘要

Talk to cruise-line workers, and you won't hear much surprise about the chaos during the Costa Concor-dia disaster. "Those of us who've had close calls before knew it was a question of 'when,' not 'if,'" says Shari Cecil, a former merchant marine with Norwegian Cruise Line America. Cecil describes safety drills where crew members had no clue about their responsibilities-some were so nonchalant that they didn't want to take off their high heels when boarding inflatable safety rafts-and the crew would be handed safety-reminder "cheat sheets" ahead of U.S.