was quick to abandon his duties to save his own skin with little thought for the passengers his negligence left in peril what we haven't covered yet though is why the cell wall found itself in needle rescue in the first place ships tend to sail all the time without incident so what made this routine journey so tragically different there were a few factors at play that likely doomed the cell wall before it ever set sail firstly unsafe renovations had recently been carried out that made the ship less stable and therefore more dangerous extra structures were added that made the vessel so top-heavy that dock workers spoke of the ship swaying badly when they would load or unload its cargo these renovations as you can expect made the ship more profitable even if they jeopardized safety in fact on the day the ferry sank it had been massively overburdened with twice the allowable limit of cargo not only was there far too much on board but crew members had also failed to secure much of it properly with some of the trucks and containers having been tied down with ropes rather than chains or having not been secured at all and finally to hide their flooding of regulations the crew of the sewall had also drained most of its ballast water so that the overburdened ship wouldn't sit too low with all the additional weight this allowed for the cell wall to pass the frankly lazy inspections carried out before it left port some in the shipping industry have admitted that often a glance at the water level was as far as checks went when even a quick look aboard that day could have easily proven that the ferry was not fit to sail all of these elements combined meant that when the ship turned sharply while in route to its destination it being top heavy made it lean and the poorly secured cargo ensured that the cell wall would not be able to recover truly then the blame for the samwell tragedy is shared and though much has happened in the time since for the parents and the divers so deeply impacted justice is yet to be served though the captain was given a life sentence for murder in late NUMBER_TOKEN and other crew members were given lesser sentences around that same time the politician and bureaucrats whose negligence led to the botched rescue have never been held accountable in any meaningful way likewise the korean shipping industry who up until the disaster allowed a firm run by lobbyists to handle its safety inspections by the way is still finding ways to bypass the rules and put profit before safety with coast guard investigators having discovered that weight certificates that have since become required are being fabricated in large numbers and that some truck drivers are loading extra cargo after having been weighed in like i said at the start of all this we trust things like ships and planes to operate as planned and in most cases they absolutely do what we don't expect however is for shady individuals to not put our safety first and even more so we don't expect the people we trust the people that we elect to not show up when we need them but anyway guys before we leave i just want to say that as i mentioned earlier there was a lot that we had to leave out here because this was such a massive story but if you want to dive deeper i definitely suggest watching either the new yorker's coverage of this or the crossroads documentary mentioned earlier this video was edited by darkfire productions and written slash research by lux noctis with additional editing and writing by yours truly special thanks goes to every single one of my lovely supporters on patreon but especially these people
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