That’s called an after action review to some, as I mentioned.
So you thank the crew and then question their actual motivations after the fact? Call them cold hearted? Imply the we’re inhuman because all you could think of was that “nice comfy lifeboat with the powerful diesel engine?”
You say you thanked them, yet slap them in the face over and over…
At least that’s what I’m getting out of your posts. Stop thinking about e lifeboat. Maybe you can look it over better in hindsight by dropping any presuppositions and questions about the crew motivations.