dumpsterDiver
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Unless the boat sank and injured someone on he way down, how could anybody claim you're liable for anything that happens underwater?
He could chop them up in the props.
He could allow them to dive in a storm that was "too rough".
He could fail to look at his radar, fail to analyze the information properly and allow divers to enter the water as a storm approaches and then if a diver is lost... what lawyer is not going to say that the captain should have exercised good judgement and not allowed the dive to proceed - cince he was the only one who could see the weather on his radar- not to mention he has XX years of experience that should have given him more insight than the casual diver from Omaha.
What if the current is screaming and he allows a 55 yr old fat, smoker who is de-hydrated and has been puking for two hours do a dive, could not someone say the captain and or DM's should have told the diver not to enter the water and the divers heart attack might well have been avoided?
What if someone slips on the ladder and a rung of the ladder is missing some friction tape? What if a diver falls off a ladder onto another diver, and the captain did not scream at the victim to back away from the ladder seconds before the accident (instead he was in the head when this critically dangerous operation was occurring)?
I can imagine a million things that can happen that might or might not be under the captain's control that a lawyer could claim that he should have been in control or should have known..