Not quite a diving accident...

[scuba_katt]

Idocsteve, not sure why you're being so pedantic here... my point was that it was obviously a tragedy, but more of a tragedy knowing that it MAY have been avoided if they had not been under the influence.

Maybe your head would stop spinning if you tried thinking about it...

 

[Doc]

Ok, but IF they were not drunk, and IF the accident still happened, would it have been a tragedy?

Hegelian Logic, Stever...

Hegel's dialectic, which he usually presented in a threefold manner, was vulgarized by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis. Hegel rarely used these terms himself.

This model is not Hegelian but Fichtean.

Sad but true fact, most intoxicated operators "walk away", thwarting Darwin's Theory. (Unless they are somehow taken out of the gene pool in some other methodology, ie: too young to have had offspring; or too drunk to mate or... whatever)

Drinking around boats/ships is stupid. Drinking and diving in a 48 hr. period is suicidal. Drinking while on duty and at work while driving a vehicle should automatically result in a loss of employment. (and group traumatic amputation of your happy unit)

Drinking around chicks at island bars with the tan of a boat crewman is very attractive to both parties and true to Darwin (as above) it usually involves young people.

Tragic? Absolutely. Predictable? Yup.

 

[Green Hand]

You hear about it all the time.

Small aluminium boat, out fishing at night, no life vests, young children, [possibly drinking], bad weather, boat capsizes, people drown.

When will they ever learn.