I didn’t get to look either!
Why I have so many questions, I suppose.
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If you remember, would it be possible after your thesis is accepted and published to get a link to see it? I’m interested. My wife and her father are Italian and can translate for me. He is from Trieste and came to the US in 1956 on the Andrea Doria; he got off in New York just before the collision and sinking.
For entertainment, my background is English-German-Russian but the hands-down favorite lasagna in our mostly Italian extended family is my recipe. grin It is, I’m afraid, ricotta based if you are bechamel person.
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Yes of course! I am going to complete the thesis in September. If you want you can write an email and I will share the results
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Wonderful. Email dave@auspiciousworks.com
Friend of my wife indirectly saved many of the passengers on the Andrea Doria. Larry, whose last name I’ve forgotten, was born about 1910(?), did a lot of business travel between the US and the Middle East for decades, back when that meant ship travel. At one point he was taking another ship owned by the company that owned the Andrea Doria, noticed that the doors between the lower-class and upper-class decks were chained shut to keep the riff-raff where they belonged, and after he got back, he filed a safety complaint with the company, who changed their policies about that, so when the ship sank, they were able to get to the lifeboats.
My wife knew him from church, and in the mid-80s he was retired but occasionally leading tours of Egypt, Jordan, and Israel, and we splurged and went on one (also visiting college friends in Morocco on the way.) (By this time, of course, it was all by airplane and bus, except for the ferryboat from Sinai to Aqaba.)
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That was a common practice for a long time. The Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) international maritime convention under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)–of which there are 164 signatory countries, and amazing concurrence–and other regulatory agreements as well as dawning understanding of risk by insurance companies eventually sorted that kind of practice out.
Now we make do with signage. grin
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I haven’t even looked at the video yet, but I know its exactly what I thought of when I read Andrea Doria!
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