I date myself here, look up the name Joseph Hazelwood . Look up Exxon Valdez . Never mind the 3 mate and recent maritime academy grad was at the helm. The master was drunk. I had to sign soon after that I had never been convicted of DUI. The best advice anyone can give is be honest. My take is NMC wo…

[image] texastanker: It may be a given, but Joe didn’t that night. Yes obviously. Based on his reported behavior when he was called to the bridge, it’s possible he missed noticing the obvious clues because he had been snoozing.

Hazelwood’s interview with a state trooper the morning after his ship ran aground was played for jurors at his trial today. The trooper, Michael Fox, testified that he found more than 100 empty bottles of a brand of a very low-alcohol brew on the ship after the grounding. On the tape, Hazelwood des…

as a state and fed pilot for a zillon years, I can’t even begin to count how many times the capt has left the bridge, sometimes for hours, while I have the conn, night, day, zero viz., didn’t matter. Captains of all nationalities, including American. I kinda take it as a compliment, but still, th…

I would BEG you to go back and read the actual NTSB report, as voluminous as it is. The fact that YOU are a mariner and YOU still don’t know the facts as others have commented here in this thread, underscores the gross misunderstanding of the accident by not only the public, but even within our indu…

The Pilots were getting off ’early’ because the energy industry wanted them off, convinced the state of Alaska authorities and USCG it would be fine, and who were the pilots to argue against US flagships with US Masters that had their own Pilotage endorsement? Joe Hazelwood’s ONLY fault was walking…

Wrong on crucial points. Gregory Cousins was the male mate on each. AB on lookout was female . Man on wheel was inexperienced helmsman with galley slave making up the bulk of his experience.

I’m going to disagree here and in particular with the Exxon Valdez scenario. The radar return in Valdez Arm is so recognizable that one can take a good look at the radar and plot a fairly accurate position mentally. What happened there should not have, yet it did. Extreme complacency and carelessne…

The problem with that argument is that it’s contrary to foundational ideas about bridge manning. Namely setting watch conditions in accordance to workload and the underpinnings behind the skill/experience requirements of company, state and federal pilotage and mariner licensing.

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