Posted by John Nichols on January 25, 2012 at 05:59:49 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: Sinking Ship posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on January 24, 2012 at 10:14:46:
The Italian shipping accident is tragic. I am remined of two famous sayings:
Better drowned etc and
You can go out to sea, nothing says you have to come back.
I think the ironic thing is the percieved character of the Captain. As sailors we all make mistakes, my wife will not let me forget that I capsized a Mirror Dinghy in the middle of Coniston. We had my 9 year old daughter who went under the sail. I had done this many times, so it was just routine, but to Anne and Charlotte is was terrifying.
The bad thing is I capsized in a dead calm.
My only question is : Why did he leave a boat that is not sunk.
JMN