SS Richard Montgomery Clearance
Presentations — 2.00 pm & 7.00 pm Abbey Hotel Sheerness
Monday 9th September 2013 by Mike Barker MBE
Admission Free. Advanced registration required. All welcome. For details see:
It will be 71 years since the SS Richard Montgomery sank off sheerness on 20 august 2015.
The wreck is safe to clear but not to leave beginning to break up becoming more dangerous every day.
Could this be the reason nobody has done anything about it. Only a matter of time.
The normalcy bias, or normality bias, refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This may result in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations.
“The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It can result in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
Day One 
Luck I am not on a tanker off course heading for the wreck! see site:
http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com and you will understand why…
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Wow! Good luck with the film!!
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SS Richard Montgomery Clearance
Presentations — 2.00 pm & 7.00 pm Abbey Hotel Sheerness
Monday 9th September 2013 by Mike Barker MBE
Admission Free. Advanced registration required. All welcome. For details see:
Click to access presentations09092013.pdf
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It will be 71 years since the SS Richard Montgomery sank off sheerness on 20 august 2015.
The wreck is safe to clear but not to leave beginning to break up becoming more dangerous every day.
Could this be the reason nobody has done anything about it. Only a matter of time.
The normalcy bias, or normality bias, refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This may result in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations.
“The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It can result in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
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Hmm.. I would have thought that this wreck must be the subject of a regular safety review, by a maritime safety agency or military department.
Assuming such safety reviews take place, surely the point of these is to avoid such a bias occurring?
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I’m assuming you saw this: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/anger-at-boarders-bomb-wreck-stunt-38288/
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I have site http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com if you follow this link from the site you will see what the gov is not doing!
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/search/%22ss%20richard%20montgomery%22/all
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