Anytime you have a major incident and you have no one hurt or killed in this type of thing, I think you always think it's a miracle. |
If you had a multiple compartment, one could argue it wouldn't have gone down at all or it would have lasted a lot longer. It was designed 40 years ago and did what its specifications required. This is why we need more new vessels. |
It is impossible for me to conjecture why it ended up where it did. |
It's unfortunate to lose the ship. But if that's the cost of having nobody really hurt or killed, then fine, I think we'll live with that. |
Normal levels would be having two ships in the middle of the summer. I think we've got some hard work to do in finding alternate means. |
The amount of noise and effort, it's pretty hard to imagine somebody couldn't have heard it. |
The crazy excuses, Iranian nuclear threats or Nigerian unrest, I shake my head when I hear it. It was hurricanes before. It's a very crazy market, and unfortunately we're stuck with it just like Air Canada and any other transportation companies. |
The logical conclusion is that they may well be on the ship. |
There is a real possibility that they went down with the ship. |
There were at least three or four instances of, if you will, shifting of passengers on board the vessel. |
We'll get a better sense of the state of the sea bottom, state of the ship, besides doing the pollution issues. |
We're looking for quality yards that can deliver quality product in time for December (2008), and I think we've got a big obligation to the people of the north to see that take place. |