[QUOTE=z-drive;130686]In a rescue on the high seas you better accept and be grateful for whatever method the responding ship proposes and executes. If you don’t like it, get rescued by someone else.
Amazing shit like this from blow boaters refusing inconvenient rescues like the clowns on the Catamaran out of NY refusing an eastbound ship for convenience.
The ship ultimately will do whatever is least riskiest for the ship and the ship’s crew. That maybe not the best for the person in distress.
What happens if they’re towing a lifeboat and suddenly NEED that lifeboat? Now the ships crew suffers.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention that if it’s too rough to recover the boat or take persons on board the ship from the lifeboat, the ship’s crew manning the lifeboat would have to stay in the lifeboat for the entire tow.