#0091 | greed strikes, hard and brash

Submitted by Anonymous from Somewhere.

Here’s Anonymous’ story:

“The Hull trawler Gaul sank in 1974 with the loss of all 36 crew. The wreck was located in 1997, surveyed in 1998 and 2002, and, in 2004, a formal investigation concluded that the vessel had capsized due to flooding through the duff and offal chutes, which had all been left open by the crew.

The panel of experts tasked with conducting the formal investigation considered a multitude of other possible causes for the loss of the vessel, including the most spectacular: seizure, scuttling, fire, collision, explosion, missile attack, torpedo attack, striking a mine, icing, cargo shift, structural failure, grounding, snagging a seabed cable or a submarine, but not an obvious design defect in the construction and arrangement of the vessel’s waste disposal chutes!

Although evidence of a design fault existed and had been revealed to the government many years ago, it was suppressed during the formal investigation to avoid compensation claims from the victims’ families.”