Driven to distraction

摘要

As evidence that a picture is worth a thousand words, many people will recall that astonishing illustration of a Tunisian freight ferry buried up to her bridge (at least the bridge was forward) in the side of an anchored containership in the Mediterranean. How on earth did they manage to get into such a situation? Did the computer assisted navigation equipment fail at the crucial moment? Was the officer of the watch on the ferry suddenly paralysed or did his steering gear fail to obey his urgent commands ? What on earth was going on that led them into such a pickle?