I loved the book and loved “Until the Sea Shall Free Them”. Have you ever looked into how the airline industry handles similar issues. I have a foot in both worlds and sometimes it amazes me how things diverged between floating and flying “Captains of Thor”. A long time ago ALPA (airline pilot’s union) fought a hard fight to stop “pilot error” being the end conclusion of all accident investigations. Being sent on kamikaze missions in horrible weather in crap airplanes still exists occasionally on the lowest levels of the industry, but it has been banished from any airline the general public would ride on long ago.
If the El Faro had been a 737, the airline dispatch office would have been on the radio with the captain asking him WTF he was doing and please turn away from the storm right now.
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