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Why Does a Ship Captain Rock
Wed, 03 Apr 2024
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Why does a ship Captain rock?

Reference the Dali and the Baltimore bridge:

Now that the Suez canal has been cleared, take a moment to fathom this. Try to think of any other job where a single screw up, by a SINGLE person has the potential to bring the entire world's supply chains to a grinding halt, and puts the incident on every news channel and WhatsApp group for an entire week or more.

Yeah, that's why Ship Captains rock. Not many other jobs with this amount of responsibility on a single person. Make no mistake, the responsibility of this entire f-up is currently on the Captain's shoulders, whether or not it was his/her fault... That's where the buck stops. On this SINGLE person. And you know what, I know scores of people personally, who sign up for this job and do it phenomenally well, without a second thought about the cost of a single mistake. Knowing fully well that the responsibility for any mistake is set squarely on their shoulders. Often times not even a mistake committed by them, but by somebody else onboard. But that's what we sign up for. And we do it well, and with integrity. Like most of you do your jobs.

In the coming days, we will see the name of the Captain of the Dali, then we will read the analyses of how this happened, and how it could have been avoided. Easy to say all that in hindsight, and yes, lessons must be learnt from it. But, please don't be too quick to judge this person and declare him/her incompetent. You have no idea what they could or could not have done in the circumstances, and what they are going through right now.

Playing a game on the CNN website, and reading a few articles about momentum, bank suction, and effects of wind on steering a large ship does not qualify you to judge a Master Mariner. Hell, BEING a Master Mariner doesn't even qualify you to judge this person. Which is why I will not be judging this person. And neither should you.

 
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