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Seconds to Silence: How the Sewol's Course Changed Forever
Seconds to Silence: How the Sewol's Course Changed Forever
Fear that routine choices can become fatal: the MV Sewol made a five-degree course change at 08:46 on April 16, 2014, and thirty-six seconds of AIS navigation data vanished as the ship crossed the point of no return - why did the tracking cut out precisely when stability was already compromised?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of documented decisions, ship modifications, and operational details that shaped the voyage and its outcome, asking how a routine morning maneuver intersected with structural risk and human choices to…
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