bject: Green flash at totality
From: "Simple Simon"
Date: 11/08/2003 18:33 Pacific Standard Time
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But, if I recall correctly, Cousins was at the helm because
Hazelwood was passed out drunk. Well the blame should
be on the captain's shoulders. Navigating through a reef
should not have been taken so lightly by a real captain.
S.Simon.
As I said, you don't know what happened.
Cousins' was the Mate on watch. Hazelwood, was not "passed out drunk". Cousins'
should have been qualified to do the necessary navigation (hell, his license
was so far above yours), but he made a 3M, mistake. They were not navigating
through a reef, but down a traffic seperation scheme and were maneuvering
around ice.
The only part of your nonsense that I agree with, is that Hazelwood, should
have stayed on the bridge until they cleared the ice, but, the 3M should have
been able to handle and perform any needed navigation, to get clear of this
area. Hell, it was simple coastal navigation, that even a newbie, such as
yourself, should have been able to handle. Problem was, he made the same
mistake so many newbie's make .... he didn't confirm that the ordered course
change had actually been carried out, as ordered.
Once, when rounding Point Conception, I watched my 3M order a course change to
stbd, to head North (just happened to be on the bridge). Rather than give right
rudder to come right, the QM gave left rudder, to G come the long way, to the
new heading. No problem, except there was traffic to port. The 3M went to the
chart room to plot his position, without monitoring what was happening, and I
let things go ...... BG .... at a certain point, I called the Mate and
suggested he might want to check what was going on .... he freaked and said,
Captain, it's yours ! I said, F*** You, you screwed it up, you fix it! LOL he
did. Needless to say, we had a long discussion afterwards ....twas a good
lesson learned and he ended up being a good Mate.
Shen