cmetzenberg
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Another licensed Mariner here, for whatever that's worth. I've met enough in my career to know that the little orange book doesn't always mean much. I knew that boat well. When I was a kid I was a deadhead on it's sister ship, the Truth. I knew Jerry in passing. He had been at it a long time and was set in his ways, and this time it didn't serve him. I'm not convinced the night watch would have made a difference, but I am sure some networked smoke detectors that the USCG doesn't require under CFR subchapter T sure would have.
It's been an ordeal, dealing with all the former crew, the FBI, the press...and I was just a teenager on that boat decades ago. She doesn't look like much now. Standing on the transom you can see all the way into the forecastle.
My take away, don't rely on humans exclusively. Plan for them to screw up, have alarms and failsafe in case the humans screw up. They eventually do.
It's been an ordeal, dealing with all the former crew, the FBI, the press...and I was just a teenager on that boat decades ago. She doesn't look like much now. Standing on the transom you can see all the way into the forecastle.
My take away, don't rely on humans exclusively. Plan for them to screw up, have alarms and failsafe in case the humans screw up. They eventually do.