Court says officer compounded problems by steering the wrong way in moments before casualty
A judge has ruled that a chief officer on sole watch on the bridge of a bulker was probably listening to clips on his mobile phone in the run-up to a collision with another vessel off the Greek coast.
Audio recordings from the bridge of the 38,200-dwt Kiveli (renamed Phoenix Dawn, built 2008) picked up sounds of a baby playing and laughing with a mother within two hours of the collision, according to the ruling.
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