Should you manage to get the door open then there is a four foot drop to the other corridor wall. You would then have to negotiate your way along a darkened passage way with a succession of inward opening doors, each of which would be a potential death trap. Absolute nightmare!
Colin
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hi Colin, Ive just mentally tried to put myself in that situation on the last ship i sailed on for two years, even knowing the ship gives you little help on trying to reach somewhere safe plus its total darkness and your right, every door is a potential death trap, you would have a min 6ft drop onto all types of cabin furniture, chair legs tables broken glass etc etc, these passengers would have no knowledge at all of the way out,,, just total fear for their lives of whats just in front of them, all they have is feel and touch, in an environment unknown to them, TOTAL HELL is what i think, the pic below shows what your up against