At 01:42 PM 9/27/98 -0400, Richard Culpeper wrote: >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? Yes, I would too as I know little about that type of thing. From my (admittedly inexperienced) vantage point, I saw a ship that was listing badly and was destined to sink anyway in the storm that raged for many days. My assumption (possibly incorrect?) is that nobody would have attempted (repeatedly) to rescue the ship in those condition if there wasnt a human onboard. If I am wrong in that assumption, then I am wrong about the assumption that he needlessly put many other lives at risk. Wayne > >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? > > *************************************************************************** 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 - 12:01:31 PDT
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