boycott Peter Hughes Diving

[ChrisEdwards]

How many of you have read "NO SAFE HARBOR" . . . ???

After reading this thread, I'm waiting for my copy to arrive from Amazon.com.

 

[Lead_carrier]

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[DBailey]

I apologize for digging up such and old thread, but I was curious what some of the feelings are about this accident now that so much time and information has passed since this tragedy.

I just finished reading the book "No Safe Harbor", and there are some very chilling details of the events that lead up to this tragedy.

I was on the Peter Hughes vessel just a few months ago, and Peter himself was on the boat. I had such high respect for him after leaving that trip, and thought he was a first class guy. Mind you, I wasn't OW certified until 2003, well after this accident, so at the time, it didn't strike as close to home as it would now. However, after reading this book, I cant help but change my opinion of Peter Hughes, and I wish I would have read this book sooner.

Ok, so you met Hughes and had high respect for him based on your 2007 meeting.

You read a book (a book, not an official report) that was written about an event back that occurred in 2001.

Now, based on the reading of the book, you have a lower opinion of Hughes? Don't you think that the 2001 events could have changed Hughes and affected why you had high respect for him?

Personally, I read "No Safe Harbor" before I booked a trip on a PH boat. I felt due to the 2001 events, the PH boat was safer and more professionally run than boats and operations that hadn't had such incidents. Sadly, it takes incidents like this to shake up the industry.

 

[mike_s]

I think there is definately some bias with the No Safe Harbor book as the author was a victum of the accident himself. That's to be expected.


However, read the IMMARBE report. It's unbiased and done by the
International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize

http://www.wavedancermemorial.com/Accident/IMMARBEReport.pdf

 

[Hank49]

I was here in Belize, about 10 miles north of Big Creek when this happened. If the people had left the boat they would have still been right in the path of the hurricane and all the locals, or at least an public transportation was long gone. The town of Big Creek and Mango Creek were hit hard.
As for the choice of the harbor, I don't think there was any other. The hurricane bent southward at last minute. It was supposed to hit Dangriga, about 40 miles north earlier that afternoon. It was also a very fast moving storm. It came and went in less then two hours. Who to blame? Bad things happen sometimes.