That bothers me, Charley. If all the bulkheads were sealed, why would that happen? Again, as I said earlier, without knowing the details of when and why bulkheads were or were not sealed (and the configuration of bulkheads) it's all conjecture at this point. And, yes, I know the intentional grounding may have caused further damage.

In any case, as Megan said so early in this thread, a witch hunt is just not right. My focus here is simply an interest in what happened after the initial contact. What's done is done re the initial contact and is of NO concern to me. It happened and I am sure the authorities will sort that out and learn from it. My interest is, again, the rest of the story.

And that is strictly from an engineering point of view although it's obvious that separating the human reaction component is almost impossible... but it can be learned from so the human component is essential to future safety. At this point, conjecture warning, it may seem the Cappy did well after the the initial collision in his decisions re attempting to mitigate the problem.