It very well may be that “The fact of the matter is … A SHIP IS SAFER AT SEA THAN IN PORT.”
Not being a sea captain, I’m don’t know where it would be safer in 30 foot waves. I would say, however, with certainty that “the fact of the matter is…a human is safer in port than at sea” during most severe storms.
One might say that this was the “Perfect Storm”. To get this ship out of harm’s way would have taken common sense which is in short supply these days about almost everything.
The captain was a fool and paid for his decision with his life and a member of his crew. No one…NO ONE would of put to sea to ride that storm out, he could of gone up the river in New Haven and rode the storm out with no risk of life loss. The boat was a wreck, the shipwrights who inspected it earlier that year had found serious structural rot in the boat and it required constant pumping in calm water to keep it afloat.
It very well may be that “The fact of the matter is … A SHIP IS SAFER AT SEA THAN IN PORT.”
Not being a sea captain, I’m don’t know where it would be safer in 30 foot waves. I would say, however, with certainty that “the fact of the matter is…a human is safer in port than at sea” during most severe storms.
One might say that this was the “Perfect Storm”. To get this ship out of harm’s way would have taken common sense which is in short supply these days about almost everything.
Guess the safest course for our commentators to chart is to await the outcome of the hearings.
The captain was a fool and paid for his decision with his life and a member of his crew. No one…NO ONE would of put to sea to ride that storm out, he could of gone up the river in New Haven and rode the storm out with no risk of life loss. The boat was a wreck, the shipwrights who inspected it earlier that year had found serious structural rot in the boat and it required constant pumping in calm water to keep it afloat.