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Originally posted by Van
Unbelievable...
It's a clear case of natural selection at work.
Only the smarter of the species survive to reproduce.
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I see a flaw in your statement. Only the amrter SHOULD survive to reproduce (that should be smarter SHOULD survive - me can't spell) already has survived and perhaps reproduced...
All that being said, we can see that he was grossly under prepared but almost all of us truly are. He also may have been much more prepared but did what he was used to in an emergency - get on the radio - which might not be the ideal thing to do iin that instance. Theses posts always create an "I'm gonna update my ditching plans..." mentality that in 90% of cases is probably not followed up sufficiently. 9 out of 10 people won't properly learn from the lesson.
I've seen a lot of boat pictures in the past few years but I've seen very few of those pictures or boaters showing a high level of preparedness in advance.
Rarely when I get on a boat does someone - including charter boats - say "Right here are the life jackets", "Here is the emergency gear", "If I go over the side", or "if there is an injury to me"... In IT we call these "Disaster Recovery" Plans. A well thought out plant to prevent a building disaster, or recover once it's happened...
Interestingly, the two people I've seen address safety is GS - the boat doesn't move under gas power unless you wearing a PFD and the pics of #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& and his son always show the kid with a good PFD and #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& with a SOSpendors on...