For the past 15 years cruse ships have been getting bigger and bigger and taller and taller. The recent disaster on the Costa Concordia highlights this issue. As soon as the ship started taking on water it started to list heavily hampering evacuation efforts. We have all seen the pictures of the ship aground and on its side.
It is up to engineers and architects to determine if the listing was the fault of the design or not, but it has long been the buzz of passengers that these ships are being designed without regard for the effects of too much weight too high above the water line. It is time to look at ships design with this safety issue in mind.
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