I could not help but note the irony of the name of the vessel…
anyway
the master is DAMNED lucky that people didn’t end up dead after that screw up.
and I am DAMNED glad I never have faced a similar massive failure of judgement although I did break a piling on a brand new dock at the Unisea plant in Dutch Harbor once approaching at to high a speed and unable to apply the brakes enough to stop the forward momentum. That was really embarrassing because I was the first to leave my calling card there and everybody in the plant saw it daily.
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