Capt Jim Wyatt
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I resemble that remark.Like many Captains, I'm a bit of an arrogant prick.
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I resemble that remark.Like many Captains, I'm a bit of an arrogant prick.
If he had no way to know they were still alive and at that point the fire was so great that he could have done nothing to save them even had he known, sticking around would've helped no one. What you describe with the Costa Concordia sounds different. In the case of the Conception, negligence beforehand was the key issue.Regarding the fact that captain left the ship with passengers still alive and trapped, I think that this alone was an action deserving the verdict.
Ha Ha Ha! Love it.^^^This^^^
Although they weren't all a-holes. I've met many lifelong friends diving.
The true answer is that I opened up Cuba for American Flagged commercial passenger vessels. I worked for 10 years to obtain an ABS Load Line on a 40 year old existing vessel, successfully, and I performed all of the engineering and drafting except the hydrostatics. I am a marine and nuclear engineer, not a naval architect. I was the first commercial US passenger vessel to legally make a voyage to Cuba since 1962. I made 2 trips and had 6 on the books, and I was killing it.
Like many Captains, I'm a bit of an arrogant prick. I had an in in Cuba, and all of the support I could ever want if I only followed their rules. As stated, I am a bit of a prick, and I also made some cultural faux pas that I could not recover from. I had been told how to act, but again, I am a bit of an arrogant prick.
I sold my boat for far more than I paid for it, and sold it in Cuba where she is being used exactly for the purpose she was best at, carrying out diving research in one of the most beautiful places in the Caribbean. I have no regrets, I had the best job in the world for 20 years.
I was a surface nuke, cruisers. I am now Gas Turbines, LM2500 and Rolls 501-K34.so I went Gas Turbines instead.
Indeed, I work on it every day.Still arrogant, if slightly more polite about it in my old age.
Nukes are 600# steam guys with twidget training.I was not a nuke - qualified on 600 pound steam.
Was US Navy Spec Ops/Diving/Salvage.
I qualified Gas Turbines (RR) and my first ship was steam…I was not a nuke - qualified on 600 pound steam.
Was US Navy Spec Ops/Diving/Salvage.
Navy paddle steamer, huh? I thought you were much younger than 100.I was not a nuke - qualified on 600 pound steam.
Was US Navy Spec Ops/Diving/Salvage.
USS Spiegel Grove LSD-32Navy paddle steamer, huh?