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> BTW, there is no rescue swimmer in the Coast Guard empowered with the
> authority to declare a voyage "manifestly unsafe". That authority
> resides in District Commanders (in this case the Commander of the
> First Coast Guard District in Boston). Second, while I'll acknowledge
> my understanding of this law is incomplete, I know of no such
> determionations that can be made in the circumstances that Satori was
> in, because the voyage had already begun, there was no finding that
> the vessel was inherently unsound, and there was no appeal process.
I have quoted only those two USCG men. But I heard from other sources,
including a PBS documentary, that the voyage was in fact so declared by
the relevant. empowered authority. I do not have access at present to
the tapes so I am relying on memory, but I believe that the
determination was made by an authority on shore and that decision/order
relayed to the skipper of Satori by the USCG crew on scene.
You seem determined to have an argument here. I do not know what weather
reports were available at the time Satori left port, nor is that
something I am discussing. I have been writing solely to address the
question of how long the boat was afloat before coming ashore in
maryland, and whether or not the skipper was ordered off the boat. If
you wish to argue something else, you are doing so with a mirror.
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