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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:37:22 -0700, "Capt. JG"
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"Roger Long" wrote in message
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Exactly. As has been pointed out here endlessly, being the stand on
vessel doesn't make you blameless if you take no action to avoid the
collision. Rules aside, the CG boat would have gotten to its mission
objective a lot sooner if it had followed the full rules of the road
instead of just the one governing the passing situation.

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Roger Long

I looked at the vid again, and I'm even more shocked by what happened. It
was pretty clear that the people on the PB weren't paying attention even
in
the fuzzy vid, yet on the CG boat came. It's really disturbing to think
that
they would have so little regard for life and limb, given the CG's
mission.
It was totally avoidable. They could have done their mission, and then
cited
the PB for not keeping a proper watch or whatever.

The video is a little misleading. At the beginning they show a CG boat
and helicopter. That's not the boat that ran them over. It was a
private craft manned by CG AUX. I think the victims may have even been
looking at whatever the "rescue" boat was headed towards. It sure
appears that the CG Aux was greatly exceeding their authority, and I
would guess they were probably found almost entirely to blame.


Ok.. I feel a little better, having had my own run-in with the Aux. Some are
great, so are total bozos with delusions of grandeur.

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"j" ganz @@
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