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Re:Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauri... by hotsauceror on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:39AM (#24493693)
Taken together with the other claims in the report - ignoring multiple communications attempts from the Mauritian Coast Guard, and improperly configuring/using their electronic navigational systems, it's not clear why a more charitable reading than incompetence and dereliction of duty in a licensed mariner would be merited.
Re:Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauri... by svrtknst on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @12:24PM (#24494183)
"Incompetence and dereliction of duty" are cop-outs, in the case that there are underlying causes.

If, say, reduced staffing and increasing demand leads to worsened worker conditions, and that in turn affects their ability to do their work, or impairs their judgment, then it's crucial to uncover those issues.

I'm sure the shipping companies etc. would love to run with the explanation that the workers caused this by being stupid, and nothing else, though.

Re:Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauri... by bpodgursky on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @12:28PM (#24494232)
Unless you have personally unexpectedly spent six months on a tanker, cut off from contact with family and friends, knowing that there's a pandemic which could be affecting any of them, I think a charitable reading is the appropriate one.

Some people have harder lives than you, and when not set up for success, make bad choices.

Re:Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauri... by withinboredom on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @12:55PM (#24494544)
I think the personal attack is why you’re being downvoted, but fwiw, I agree with the first part. From being in Afghanistan, I have first hand experience of some of the shenanigans some people will go through to make a phone call.
Re:Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauri... by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:01PM (#24494618)
He's being down-voted because it's a personal attack that could apply to 99% of people here and people just gotta defend the tribe.

If it had been the lines of "clearly you've never worked for a business that wrote software" or some other thing that applies to some small minority here nobody would have thought twice about it.

Re:Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauri... by s1artibartfast on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:55PM (#24495273)
I think it is bizarre and unreasonable to attribute the root cause of failure to the birthday party itself. It detracts from the real causes which you mention.

You can have a birthday party safely. You can seek internet safely.

Incompetence and dereliction of duty are the faults and headlining with the birthday bit obscures this.