And then suffer engine failure. The ship sinks and all on board are lost. Lifeboats don't help in a Cat 4 hurricane.
Dumb and dumber. The hurricane's location was on all the TV channels, it wasn't moving very fast, even a sluggish container ship could out run it. You gotta be really really dumb to sail any kind of ship into a hurricane, especially a top heavy unseaworthy container ship.
Dumb number two. Leaving port with the ship's engines so messed up that they fail at sea. Without engine power, any ship will broach broadside to the wind and get battered til it sinks. With engine power you can keep the ship's bow into the wind, taking the blows of the sea on the strongest part of the ship.
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