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owner of the sewol would have to increase the amount of water ballast so that they could stabilize the vessel. and also they had to reduce the amount of cargos and containers. what they have to look into is whether or not the changes were ever made. and captain, they found out the crew had not received safety training. as a captain is that just shocking to you? i mean, that would seem to be kind of the basic thing that a crew should do. well, you said it right. it is a very basic thing. the basics of the basics. training and security is the training we have to do on ships. everybody has to live in a safety culture to make sure we don t have these types of situations. so absolutely correct. it is astounding to me that in an environment like this, in a maritime country where they have a great ship-building capacity would even have people that don t train their people in safety. it just amazes me. i m shocked and i m surprised.
and they probably did. they probably added more water ballast. a lot of the ships it will alley have saltwater ballast. they fill the bottom of the boat with saltwater and they drive along to keep the boat upright. it s all a matter of what you can do, how you do it, and if you do it correctly. we do know there were renovations. we also know that the containers don t always match up to what should be on the ship. we know that this is what the maximum cargo, this is what the boat is listed for. the ship should have 88 cars, 60 trucks or 247 shipping containers. it had this. this is the manifest. 124 cars. now that s a bigger number. but if you come down here and you look at the shipping containers, it s much less. so it s all a matter of weight and where do you put that weight. the higher you put the weight on those cargo containers above the deck, above the water line, the more it wants to tip over. also, some people may say the renovations, i get you, could have shifted the center o