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The following area includes items that have piqued our interest from the world's press, and will be added to, from time to time, with the most recent article at the top, as time goes on.
* Full Copyright and ownership of all these articles, images, etc. remains as was, and we do not take even a shred of credit for them, but are just pleased to be able to reproduce them here"
Other's thoughts, conclusions and musings;
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits".
Albert Einstein.
"John speaks very slowly and said some interesting things. Seemed like a nice guy but not sure if he is right for the role with X which is why I was calling.
He said he has always dreamed of working in shipping insurance.
The dream started when he watched Godzilla for the first time and he saw a ship torn apart."
Notes from a Spinnaker Job Interview.
(N.B. The "John" mentioned here is NO relation to anyone else with the same name mentioned in this website).
"They carry too much heavy cantainer. it too heavy. and the ship is moving. it will collision. dumb ass".
An Expert's Analysis on You Tube
(N.B. He was describing why containers toppled over the side of a container vessel; concise; erudite; eloquent; to the point; great spelling, syntax and grammar; - and otherwise all a bit wrong).
"Q: How, exactly, does a boat strike an oil well?
A: Usually with the bow... Unless it's backing up, then it hits with the stern..."
(A slightly tongue in cheek comment referring to the "BARITRA BAY" Barge, which hit a wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico.)
"When asked if the improper loading caused the sinking, the source said:
"Anything is possible; an alien spacecraft could have landed on it and flipped it over".
(A quote found by TradeWinds)
"The "STARWARD" ran aground at the base of a 150 foot cliff at the end of a half-mile long peninsula.
That feat was somewhat akin to accidentally driving a car into the side of a barn in the middle of a wheat field.
Vertical rock walls usually provide a distinct radar picture but, evidently, no one was watching.
The last position plotted on the "STARWARD"'s chart was made some 30 minutes before the grounding.
No calculations were made to determine where the ship was going or how fast it was moving.
No one looked at the radar or, apparently, even spared a glance out the bridge windows".
It is thought that this quote is attributed to someone close to the USCG - and who very clearly knew what he was talking about.
(N.B. The STARWARD" was a cruise liner that got too close to the Caribbean Island of St Thomas 1n 1994)
"I was navigating by sight because I knew the depths well and I had done this manoeuvre three or four times"
-- Captain Francesco Schettino, Master, "COSTA CONCORDIA"
"Accidents are a result of many small events which latch together to form an incident chain.
Taken separately, each mistake is minor but when strung together, they lead to disaster.
Remove one link, one minor mistake along the timeline, and the chain is destroyed… disaster is avoided."
From the superb e-zine, "gCaptain" - a recommended daily read
(N.B. Invariably in our experience, there are at least SEVEN links in this chain, and even had someone corrected the 7th error at the 11th hour, the disaster would have been averted (and usually, the crew probably still would not have known how close they had come).
"We hit a glacier."
The Captain of a cruise liner that managed to hit one of the slowest moving things on the planet.
"Do you know what you would have done? Do you?"
Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim
"Struck an iceberg and sank in latitude 41.16 N, longitude 50.14 W".
Lloyds Register Casualty Report on the Titanic
*(N.B. See the great article on this by Chris Browne Lloyd's Register "HORIZON"'s magazine).
"One definition of madness is you do the same thing over and over again expecting a different result"
Sam Ignarski in the excellent Bow Wave e-zine.
"His men would follow him anywhere, but only through a sense of lively curiosity".
And of course the most important sea-faring quote of all time .....
"It was a dark and stormy night"
Snoopy in "Snoopy The Musical" 12 July 1965 Charles M. Schultz
(N.B. Snoopy's less well known quote was "It was a dark and stormy evening"
The actual canonical phrase was first used by the Victorian author Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1830)
(** The intention is to update this section every 3 months. Any suitable contributions and suggestions will be gratefully received, and who knows, they may well be included and credited in the next update!)
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