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• Have you seen this?
  • Amazing! Was anyone paying attention?
    • Read somewhere he was in the head
      • Is that keeping watch?
        • OK - I'll go ahead.....
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          • Re: OK - I'll go ahead.....
            • Motor boats are more prone to that accident.
              • Exactly the reason why , when I was crossing the Great Bahama Banks
                • Same here - -I always avoid the rumb line in fog
                  • Re: Well, if everybody does that, then it would be a pretty good place to be!!
                    • Why else would I post it online?
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                  • Sure, but this happened on one of the remarkable clear days in WA.
            • I'd say the autopilot did a fine job of recovering course!
  • "If to starboard red appear, 'tis your duty to keep clear"
    • No lookout trumps all, right?
  • So what exactly are the repercussions of that???
    • From Director Vessel Traffic Service Puget Sound, U. S. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound...
      • I operate on the Bahama rules- Da biggest boat gots da right of way!!Also I tell crew
        • At any rate, it's a great vid! I love the woman's commentary, so spot on.
          • ROFL- Yep. She didn't mince words
      • I'm no old salt and don't know the 'rules' that well. But I think both are at fault.
        • I hit a steel bouy in broad daylight GOBI
          • Which is why I am firmly convinced a deck sweeper has no place
      • The power boat is clearly at fault
        • I think it was 50/50
          • Re: I think it was 50/50 - not quite...
            • I agree, I think the powerboat is MORE at fault of course. What I would have done
          • Re: I think it was 50/50
        • Re: The power boat is clearly at fault... the ferry is not restricted by depth...
          • The powerboat was in the exclusion zone around the ferry
            • Re: The powerboat was in the exclusion zone around the ferry
              • Re: The powerboat was in the exclusion zone around the ferry
                • That was somewhat how I was seeing it... but the complexity of the rules...
            • Does the exclusion zone trump other rules of the road?
              • Re: Does the exclusion zone trump other rules of the road?
          • Do you think the accident still would have happened if the ferry operator had known that the
            • Probably not, but I also think the ferry operators...
              • Had the powerboat skipper not been inattentive and instead radioed the ferry well in advance, saying
                • Re: Had the powerboat skipper not been inattentive and instead radioed the ferry well in advance, sa
                • Re: Had the powerboat skipper not been inattentive and instead radioed the ferry well in advance, sa
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                  • "high pucker factor watches... "