I also wonder about the modern practice of not having the lifeboats o n top as the y can go under too quick and have a large liner towering above them that could topple onto just launched boats if it toppled quickly.
For many years I queried the wisdom of ferries arriving with their bow doors already open and was told the water can't get in easily, a practice stopped after the Herald of Free Enterprise into making sure they're shut before they move as it is only safe up to a certain speed
I've seen many comments about large liners as to stability as they seem to roll badly in heavy seas and the answers have always been re assuring, but often something, like this, eventually happens and they have to think again.
People have drawn comparisons to the Titanic although there is nothing in the slightest in common with the two incidents...except perhaps complacency.
It remains to be see what exactly did happen here, but in the case of the Titanic complacency allowed a series of events to line up and cause a major disaster.
Perhaps also, like the Titatnic it might have saved the ship had it hit head on but the glancing blow ripped it apart.
