it can take a long time (like hours) for a ship that big just to come about and get in a position to drop a boat in the water to even start a rescue operation. and that assumes they have anyone on board capable of doing so.
Huh? No Man-over-board boat?
]MOB boat definition (with picture) Those are designed to be launched and retrieved while the mother vessel is moving. If someone falls in the water you drop a buoy (point of reference for where you were when somene went MOB), drop the MOB boat and then turn the boat around. But they require a trained and capable crew, and the will to deploy them.
I would have thought that MOB boats and crew to man them within some response time limit was a requirement for a cruise ship.
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