Would any inspection regime be able to inspect both ends of every single wire on every ship that ever enters our territorial waters? Every wire? And how often do they need to redo that inspection, as one could be pulled out?
Not sure I understand. If they’re proposing a less exhaustive inspection standard it wouldn’t have done anything to avert this incident or similar ones.
On the contrary, perhaps the cause was down to a single failed wire, but multiple other safety layers were bypassed in this overall failure. A regulatory scheme that would have enforced and caught a single one of those layers would have prevented this event. It's why the term swiss cheese model of safety is discussed. Only when the events line up holes though multiple layers of swiss cheese should an actual catastrophe occur.
