1. Could salvage law have anything to do with it? E.g., if the captain abandoned the boat entirely, would this make it more costly for the owners to get it and its cargo back from the salvagers if they had been able to tow it to safety? I have no idea about what the law is, and would be interested to hear from someone who does? 2. Did his staying aboard have any effect upon the efforts by others to save the ship and cargo, or would they have done so anyway even if he was not on board? Richard Culpeper www.geocities.com/~culpeper ---------- > From: wayne steffens <wsteffen_at_skypoint.com> --snip-- > The Captain refused to be > rescued when another ship arrived and took the rest of the crew back to > shore. He was going to stay with his listing ship until it either sank > (which it was in grave danger of) or it was towed to safety. --snip-- > Am I the only one who thinks that he was a fool, who needlessly put the > lives of many other people at risk by declining rescue when the opportunity > first arose? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Sep 27 1998 - 10:53:26 PDT
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