Capt. Rob wrote:
Actually that's not a "fact" but then it's fairly well
proven


Sorry, Doug. It's a fact. If you don't believe it, it's STILL a fact.


Sure, it's easy to "be safe" when you never go anywhere.


That comment proves how unsafe a boater your must be. The worst
accidents are close to shore, when people "feel safe."

Not so bubbles. On a supply boat 20 miles offshore the first mate was
cut in half when a line parted on a Point Marine boat I worked on, he
was relief crew. Had a deck hand get his hand sucked into a turbo
charger and have all his fingers removed to the second knuckles about
80 mile offshore. One of Terry's crewmates had his leg crushed off
between two shrimpboats 110 miles offshore, and a deck hand have his
hand tore off in the net winch. My first boat over 100 tons that I ran
for a week with only an OS ticket we had to evac the skipper for Kidney
stones, had a deck hand break both his ankles offloading cargo at a
platform 100 mi offshore, seen 2 suicides, one a girl dove 8 stories
onto a submarine tied next to us, one baby born aboard, one killed on a
tugboat trying to pull our ship away from the pier as a line parted (de
capated) I was stabbed by a sheet of metal blown while on a crane hoist
offshore, had a Ray tail cut my leg open 11" to the femor bone in a
tropical attoll harbor, one OD, one deckhand had a heart attack in Bay
of DeCampchee, 1 lost at sea in the pacific, one major
electrocution. Terry broke her ankle boarding a crewboat once. And we
were in a major head on collision were Terry ruptured her spleen,
lacerated her kidney, broke several ribs on a river 40 miles from town.
Saw the whole crew(8) of a supplyboat that capsized die in Laguna
Madre, and a tug crew cept the cook all killed when a tow tripped in
the gulf. And a 1000 other cuts and bruises sprains and strains.

Capt. Joe