The Root Cause

THE ROOT CAUSE "Rhosus; O' how you wished you never sailed into the port of Beirut" "There was no need for the ship Rhosus to be in the port of Beirut with its already loaded cargo of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that was on route to Mozambique, just a poor captain who was ordered by his boss looking to make extra money to pay the ship's right of passage through the Suez Canal, the captain found his ship could not cope with the extra heavy cargo, then with the costs of refusing the extra cargo and port fees and with the ship's company inability to pay, the Beirut authorities impounded the ship and its cargo taking 4 of its crew hostage in 2013, the rest is history, as to who is to blame, well, I ask you" . . . "Cause of accident; gates 12 to the cargo hold that was holding a huge amount of fireworks were being repaired by electrical tools and it was this that sparked the initial cause of the fire before the fire hit the ammonium nitrate to which a whole group of firefighters lost their lives trying to stem the initial blaze" . . . "Verdict, Greed, mismanagement, an accident just waiting to happen" . . . : ( Indiana Shaw . . .