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Thank you Roger - cogent and on point!From the Wooden Boat Forum:
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Many aboard including the one dead young woman, were kids looking for instruction and adventure. That alone adds even more responsibility for those in charge. Those kids were likely the most capable crew you could find, but they also can be more vulnerable to accepting poor choices from those in charge. They're looking to leaders to make correct decisions and they, and their loved ones, are trusting the leaders to do so.
So I don't even get to the "sea" part. The conditions were well posted long in advance, the state of the vessel well known to the captain. What was the responsible thing to do, as the person in charge, under the circumstances?
This is as simple to me as a bus driver with a load of students, deciding to head down a long winding mountain road despite well forecast conditions of black ice along the way. He may think he knows the road and his bus, he may have a schedule, but what is the responsible thing to do, as the person in charge, under those circumstances?
I hope they find him alive, I'm not here to demonize him because he made a poor decision.
Thank you. I saw they have training programs on their website so I assumed there were some younger people on board.The ages of the crew varied. Claudene Christian was 41.
Check your facts before you speculate...... that's the responsible thing to do.Many aboard including the one dead young woman, were kids looking for instruction and adventure. That alone adds even more responsibility for those in charge. Those kids were likely the most capable crew you could find, but they also can be more vulnerable to accepting poor choices from those in charge. They're looking to leaders to make correct decisions and they, and their loved ones, are trusting the leaders to do so.
So I don't even get to the "sea" part. The conditions were well posted long in advance, the state of the vessel well known to the captain. What was the responsible thing to do, as the person in charge, under the circumstances?
This is as simple to me as a bus driver with a load of students, deciding to head down a long winding mountain road despite well forecast conditions of black ice along the way. He may think he knows the road and his bus, he may have a schedule, but what is the responsible thing to do, as the person in charge, under those circumstances?
I hope they find him alive, I'm not here to demonize him because he made a poor decision.
The pictures of the Bounty while sinking suggest that it didn't pitchpole. It seems more likely to my inexpert opinion that it was taking on water and didn't have the pumping necessary to keep it afloat. In other words the reports are basically on the mark. Sometimes what it is, is just what it is. It sank in a storm.Would the bow tend to bury itself in the next wave and risk pitchpoling?