The outlaw sea : a world of freedom, chaos, and crime by Langewiesche William

Author:Langewiesche, William
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Transportation, Politics / Current Events, Water Transportation, History - General History, Nature/Ecology, Ships & Shipbuilding - General, Maritime History, Political Science / General, Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism, Oceans & Seas, General, Shipping, Merchant marine, Terrorism, Ships, Law of the sea, Seafaring life, Marine marchande, Accidents, Haute mer, Pavillons, Criminalité, Scheepvaart, Schipbreuken, Criminaliteit
Publisher: New York : North Point Press
Published: 2004-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

from rumors and sly personal attacks to elaborate constructions of genuine evidence, good reasoning, and scientific fact. The report was difficult to read and assimilate in its entirety, and though it contained some strong points, it was weakened overall by leaps in logic and unsupported assertions, as well as by being quite obviously self-serving. But no matter—Holtappels was a practical man. He had not been hired to build a unified argument here, or to demonstrate his intellectual elegance, and what he had produced was a weapon all the more effective for its breadth and weight. It was never quite able to overturn the JAIC's conclusions, but it succeeded in creating plenty of confusion and doubt about them, a fog that lingers on. Whatever the real reasons for the Estonia s loss, Holtappels performed a miracle of damage control, and Meyer Werft emerged from the catastrophe with its reputation and finances intact.

The collateral effects have been widespread. Among them is the rise of the hard-core conspiracists who, never prone to shyness, circled the accident from the start but nourished themselves heavily on the German Group s work and used it to gain the kind of fluency with details that can sound like deep knowledge. The connection was natural, since Holtappels s report suggested that the JAIC was a cover-up—which itself would have been an epic conspiracy, requiring the cooperation of hundreds of people from three separate countries with mutually distinct interests in the case. But the true believers went further still, insisting that the JAIC was just a rearguard action and that the Estonia had been sunk intentionally in a plot that involved Russia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, and of course the puppet master itself, the United States. It would have been laughable were it not taken seriously, but in a Europe where full-blown conspiracy thinking thrives—particularly

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