T&T: Boating Accidents in the News

[Arild Jensen]

> -----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