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Re: T&T: Boating Accidents in the News

From: Arild Jensen (no email)
Date: Sun Mar 25 2007 - 00:47:29 EDT

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Kevin Redden
    > I would suggest holding off convicting anyone until
    > the investigation is done and some real information is released.
    >
    > Kevin

    REPLY
    Kevin, I'm not sure I follow your argument.
    A person did die in a collision between two vessels; and a boat did run
    aground in another incident.

    I would hardly call it a conviction to say that somehow the developing
    situation leading to a collision or a grounding must have resulted from
    insufficient "looking out" or to use the more formal terminology
    "maintaining a look-out".

    To say the events did not happen and thus it cannot be proven that anyone
    died or any vessel ran aground is denying facts published in the world
    press. Drawing a tentative conclusion based on facts is not the same as
    convicting one specific individual.

    consider:
    Surely someone on either vessel would have been able to see the approach of
    the other vessel prior to the actual collision.

    And surely whoever was the watch keeper looking at the GPS, chart plotter,
    radar display, and depth sounder readings would have noticed something amiss
    prior to the keel actually touching botom in a charted area.

    Or are you saying the vessel struck bottom in what was supposedly charted as
    deep water far from any shore and thus undetected by radar and not displayed
    on the chart plotter?

    regards

    Arild
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