[QUOTE=c.captain;149062]…out of HUBRIS and a sense of being a typical ship’s pilot…ie. INFALLIBLE! [/QUOTE]
I do not believe this is a fair statement about pilots. Blanket statements and all that, right c.captain?
Lot of us came up docking ships with single screw junk. We expected the worst and knew a big f’up was around every corner. Never, have I ever thought I was infallible. For that matter, most of the pilots that trained me never felt that way either. Perhaps there is a beef with the State associations, I get that.
Second guessing Lerro or Cota’s decision making abilities is warranted, I agree. I’d like to think when the shit hits the fan, I will react without making serious blunders.
For the record, it is my opinion Cota deserved a harsher penalty and I am not a full time pilot.
As the old guys said frequently, “you’re only as good as your last job”.
[QUOTE=lm1883;149067]Below is the link to the Marine Accident Report. Interested parties and read it and come up with their own conclusions. IMHO he did the best with what he could. A freak rain squall can happen to anyone, and there is no sense in kicking a deal guy in the nuts over an accident that happened 34 years ago.[/QUOTE]
seriously a THREE FUCKING PAGE REPORT typed on toilet paper? This really explains EVERYTHING and conclusively EXONERATES Lerro?
If I wasn’t so sad at the loss of innocent lives now more than three decades ago, my beer would be pouring through my nose right now
[QUOTE=Mullet Farm;149089]Robert Shaw stalls the engines and gets eaten alive.[/QUOTE]
only in film…John Lerro allides his ship with a bridge and kills 35 not in a film but in reality…
how can you continue to defend him or are you just taking a position counter to me out of spite?
when human made machines are involved there in never a pure Act of God which no single person could possibly prevent or at least make the resulting loss less if sound judgement is exercised in a timely manner…human minds control these machines, not the Hand of God!
