In article om,
"mmc" wrote:

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
ons...
"cavelamb" wrote in message
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In situations like that you do the best you can.

Just accept it and don't worry about the "what ifs".
They will drive you nuts.

Ya done good, John.

Yup... that's all you can do. Tragic outcome.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com



One guy makes a mistake that costs him his life as well as some property
damage and this is somehow more tragic than dozens lost off of Sierra Leone?
I read the "poor poeple are perfectly happy" bull**** on the other thread.
Apparently not if they'll go to those lengths to get a better life. Like
those "perfectly happy" Cubans that die trying to make the passage to
Florida.
What are we really crying about here? The loss of dockage?

As far as "I" am concerned, neither of these events could be classed, as
Tragic. They both seem to be just plain Human Stupidity. We, the readers
of these type stories, are so accustomed to our NEWS Reporting adding
superlatives like "Tragic", etc, to our News, that when a truly "Tragic"
Event occurs, and gets reported. There aren't any adjectives that can
describe the event left to use....

In the fire case, the original vessel owner/skipper made a bunch of
errors. The towboat skipper, also made a bunch of errors. which
compounded the situation. The Fire Department, wasn't equipped properly
to fight fire, on that dock, which was a Massive oversight, of their
operational planning. The rest of the folks did the best they could with
the cards they were dealt, and did what was needed to be done, to
terminate the event.

IN the Sierra Leone vessel sinking, it would seem the vessel skipper was
a bit over optimistic, (Being very Politically Correct here) on the
amount of overloading his vessel could handle, given the weather
conditions, and seas he encountered. The passengers, were certainly
being totally oblivious of that obvious fact, of the overloading of the
vessel. The Government Authority seems to be oblivious to the danger of
this type of transportation idiocy. So, who is to blame... All of the
above...

Seems like Darwin Theory in action.... Survival of the fittest......
or of the Less Stupid.... Tragic, to me would seem to cover things that
happen, that one, has NO control Over. Like Acts of God, etc.... but if
one has even a second or third degree of decision making in any part of
the event, you can't call it "Tragic"....