LETTER: SEA EMPRESS DISASTER: WHY DID IT HAPPEN? WHAT LESSONS CAN BE LEARNT?

From Mr Aubrey Morley

Sir: Not one comment on the Sea Empress's lamentable insensitivity to the persuasions of tugs and salvage experts has raised the single crucial fact about the vessel's lack of response: the damn thing is too big. The choice is ours. Is it to be the demands of the market or the pleas of Schumacher?

Yours faithfully,

Aubrey Morley

West Dorset Green Party

Sherborne, Dorset