Its not a matter of if but rather a matter of when a mechanical failure is going to happen on a boat, no matter what it is. This is a prime example of a mechanical (or electrical) failure that happened on a M/Y Ohana, the yacht featured on Bravo's Below Deck. On the most recent episode, there was an instance of the boat lurching forward when the engines were started and control was transferred from the engine room to the bridge. When the engineer transferred control, the boat lurched forward due to the controls being in gear. Generally, there is a safety feature on the engines that will not allow that to happen. It became known that the feature had failed and allowed the boat to go into gear anyway. Much like on other boats, the engines should not have even been able to start if the system detected the controls were in gear. With M/Y Ohana being such a large boat, it can move forward with great force and ultimately tore a steel piling that it was moored to off the dock.
Its a miracle that no body was injured. When something that big is moving in a direction that it is not suppose to, things happen very quickly. If the steel piling would have broken and hit a person, it could have definitely injured or even killed them. The crew of the M/Y Ohana handled the situation without a hiccup and I give great compliments to Captain Lee and his crew for keeping calm. In fact, the crew remained so calm, the charter guests did not even know what happened.
Failures like this happen in the marine industry, its something that cannot be avoided, but its how the situation is handled that is most important.
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