[PUP] Being prepared (for everything ?)

[Mark]

Bob brings up a great point.  One of our groups at my day job does some work on "Incident Response" for hospitals.  Part of the preparedness for large scale disasters as well as more routine patient surges is something called a Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA) that takes into account both generic hazards, but also hazards unique to a facility e.g. regional natural disaster types or proximity, certain industrial hazards, etc.  These are used to prioritize the risk mitigation plan.

It would interesting to see an HVA for PUP.  As Scott noted it would certainly take into account cruising region, but also attributes of the vessel and crew, etc.

As a side note when we do an HVA for our own internal technical operations, we often find that our efforts are mis-prioritized and all the stuff the vendors promote for disaster recovery and continuity of operations (coop) address lower risk vulnerabilities because they are things they can sell you a widget to address.  In this case, the highest risks are usually direct human error and "process error".  The second being where people followed the plan, but the plan didn't take into account certain corner cases or had common short cuts.  These types of risks are much harder to address because they require continuous vigilance not just writing a check.

----- Original Message ----
From: bob england <bob_england@hotmail.com>

I wonder just what the statistics are on being struck by lightning at sea.