Saga Spirit of Discovery
Sagas modern Spirit of Discovery was caught in a severe storm a few days ago resulting in the injury of about 100 passengers including several hospitalisations. Reports state that the sudden ship movement was the result of the activation of the "automatic propulsion safety system" making the ship veer to the left and come to a sudden halt. What sort of automatic system is this and why would it result in many injuries?
The Viking Sky incident had all three engines fail from the same shutdown alarm (low oil pressure), but they were separate safety systems that shut the engines down at the same time due to identical circumstances in all 3 engines (low oil level). Since the Saga ship did not lose power completely (the lights didn't go out), this isn't what happened here. It could be that one engine failed, and required "load shedding" (dropping enough electrical demand to match the reduced capacity), which woul
