shifting ballast

Investigators continue to look into whether the shifting ballast played any part in the derailment.

A 4 list was quickly corrected by shifting ballast, but the steering casualty could not be overcome and the ship was forced to steam in circles to starboard.

Yokes acted beyond the scope of his duty when he and his shipmates volunteered to go below and perform the physically exhausting task of shifting ballast to trim the ship, working for some 30 hours without rest.

'Shifting Ballast' One critic of the new savings proposal, Charles L. Schultze, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and chairman of President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers, said: "It's a little bit like shifting ballast around in the Titanic.