When the officer of the watch sights the wave, he orders "hard to starboard, starboard engines full astern!" When the capsized ship is shown, it can be seen that the ship (like many, newer, larger cruise ships) lacks a rudder and is equipped with "azipods." These are pods that are external to the hull which contain the motors with the propeller for each motor driven directly. Azipods can rotate 360 degrees and thus eliminate the need for a rudder since the thrust can be applied in any direction.
If an azipod equipped ship needs to perform an absurdly sharp turn, all the azipods would be turned perpendicular to the length of the ship, in the case of Poseidon with the pods facing starboard. This would cause all the thrust to be applied to swinging the ship to starboard. Under normal conditions, this would be very disruptive since it would cause the ship to roll to port and break every dish on the ship. Reversing the "starboard engines," which would be the proper procedure on a conventional ship, would be counter productive with azipods.
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