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Green flash at totality
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From: "Simple Simon" Date: 11/08/2003 18:33 Pacific Standard Time Message-id: 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 |
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