Its an expansion of your duty’sI n
I never threw anyBODY overboard. Just their kit.
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Its an expansion of your duty’sI n
I never threw anyBODY overboard. Just their kit.
It’s how these things work. Nobody showed up to work at NASA mission control on Jan 2 2003 and said, “Are you all with me that we should totally ignore all the rules about foam and damage to the shuttle’s tile system that we have rigidly enforced for years and completely reproduce the dysfunctional safety culture that resulted in the loss the Challenger for the launch of Columbia?”What I have never understood-and maybe someone here as an explanation:
This wasn't the 1st live aboard dive boat with a similar charging station and a similar amount of batteries being charged at once. So, why this one?? Why this particular fire on tis boat at that time when its not hard to assume that pretty much the exact same conditions of a bunch of batteries being charged overnight in one area has happened probably thousands of other times on other boats and even on most, or all, of the other Conception trips.
What was different about this one to cause the fire?
The 2nd issue is obviously: where was the night watch person. Was there specific training to that person to be aware of battery related fire risks? If there was: then that person-the night watch person-needs to be charged criminally. If there wasn't then the owners of the company and boat captain have more liability.
If there was no all night boat watch person-awake, alert and paying attention: thats primarily on the boat captain (and owner of the vessel to a lesser extent). Its also on the other crew who should have insisted there is always an overnight watch person.
We'll never know everything--and I doubt the crew is really revealing ALL they know. Especially now that indictments against the captain are out there. I just get stuck on the: why these batteries and these chargers and these outlets that sparked and caught fire. Could there have been a power surge from some other mechanical defect on the boat that juiced up and heated the batteries? Was it just random dumb luck of a bad battery?-if so, I'd be suing the battery maker... over a year later, and still many questions remain for me.
I recently read an analysis of the response to Covid-19 and it had a similar conclusion. It is a common psychological phenomenon.‘This is safe to do despite the rules because nothing bad has happened.’
This wasn't the 1st live aboard dive boat with a similar charging station and a similar amount of batteries being charged at once. So, why this one??
The 2nd issue is obviously: where was the night watch person. Was there specific training to that person to be aware of battery related fire risks? If there was: then that person-the night watch person-needs to be charged criminally. If there wasn't then the owners of the company and boat captain have more liability.
I never threw anyBODY overboard. Just their kit.
Now my feelings are hurt.Well it isn't like you wouldn't, you see why a person could get confused.
Now my feelings are hurt.
Now my feelings are hurt.