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The real story here is that the ship was past it's retirement age AND poorly maintained. Any of the series of small events that happened due to the maintenance issues like the scuttle popping open, or the oil sumps not being filled all the way up (these guys were really macho idiots, how expensive is a sump top off really!). The engineers at the NTSB determined that they hit the sweet spot of their engines not working because of the extreme weather and list and unfilled sumps and broken anemometer so they couldn't tell the weather like sailors have been relying on for years. Basically tech is useless if you don't maintain it or replace it or you treat human beings like disposable parts to run your depreciating hulks. The whole world shipping community is running ridiculously old and poorly maintained wrecks sailed by the worlds poorest people for the world's richest assholes. How's that for a class struggle?