HSVA to model Estonia tragedy

摘要

The Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA), in Germany, is using a unique approach to modelling evacuation times from large passenger vessels such as ro-pax vessels. This is in response to data suggesting that the number of lives lost in accidents involving passenger vessels is disproportionately high for ro-pax ships, and has recently been asked to model the events leading to loss of the ferry Estonia in 1994.