Hello Everyone, this will be my first post. After reading many postings and responses, I’m finding most have been fairly knowledgable and professional for fellow mariners or novice mariners genuinely seeking guidance or help from a few professionals with experience in our line of work. However, aft…

[image] DougSabbag: deploying our car is an exposure to possible injury or death. Actually they do. The statistics I’m thinking of are quite outdated so the ratio may be different, but a decade or so back a study determined that more firefighters were injured and killed just getting to the em…

I think it’s time to trigger a thread derailment on this thread. I’ll start: https://www.ocimf.org/media/8922/57daa432-c180-41b8-b855-55d7d084a85e.pdf

https://www.steamshipmutual.com/publications/Articles/Lifeboats0407.asp

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[image] DougSabbag: it was a sunny day, no storm, etc. [image] DougSabbag: It was a sunny day, no storm, reasonable waves. You keep repeating this over and over but that won’t make it true. The evidence says you are wrong in your recollection of “reasonable waves”. [image] Lifeboat…

[image] DougSabbag: If the tables were turned I would use all available equipment to get you. If you had the experience and knowledge required to be Master on a super tanker you’d have more sense than you do now and no, you wouldn’t follow your current suggestion.

[image] DougSabbag: DSCF0334.JPG2579x1934 2.64 MB LOOK AT THE PICTURE. Tell me how ROUGH that is?!?! I thought you said there weren’t white caps? [image] DougSabbag: but there were NOT white caps. Yep, that’s what you said. You know what that makes you? A liar. Now fuck off.

[image] DougSabbag: there ARE BETTER ways to get someone than throwing a buoy INTO the wind, and, or, not deploying a lifeboat. There may have been a better way to do the rescue, but you remain so fixated on the idea of the lifeboat being used in spite of multiple answers to the contrary.

http://www.gard.no/web/updates/content/51968/a-20-year-anniversary-the-loss-of-lives-in-lifeboats-with-on-load-release-hooks

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Capt_Phoenix August 6, 2017, 9:23pm 153

You keep repeating this over and over but that won’t make it true. The evidence says you are wrong in your recollection of “reasonable waves”.

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