Mayday off coast of Mexico-rescued from catamaran
"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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why do people abandon ship ?
Injury, fatigue, hunger, thirst, hypothermia,
JimB
Jim, I'm sure those are reasons, but they're not particularly
good
reasons. You're not going to be doing better in a smaller and
much
more uncomfortable liferaft.
Perhaps psychosis or delusion would be a better excuse. :-)
You're quite right of course. Proper reasons for abandoning ship
(for a life raft) are fire and uncontrollable leakage such that
the vessel is about to sink.
The reasons I gave above are reasons for transferring to a larger
vessel, which wasn't the point of the previous poster, but is the
most common type of abandonment, the one being discussed earlier
in the thread.
JimB
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