• PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      19·
      3 months ago

      I started looking for confirmation a bit ago and really appreciate your source. A search for ‘Merchant Mariner Ship ruh roh’ led me to the El Faro, but no articles contained the actual quote. On my phone browser it was quoted on 339, just as a heads up for anyone else.

    • mke@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      The last few pages of the transcript are chilling. I don’t know who this helmsman, AB-1, is, but I deeply feel for them.

      (Implied) heavy content

      CAPT: come on @AB-1. gotta move. (we) gotta move. you gotta get up. you gotta snap out of it- and we gotta get out. AB-1: okay. CAPT: come up. AB-1: okay.

      AB-1: help me. CAPT: don’t panic. don’t panic. CAPT: work your way up here. AB-1: I can’t.

      AB-1: help me. CAPT: you’re okay. come on. CAPT: don’t freeze up @AB-1. come on.

      AB-1: I can’t *. CAPT: yes you can *. AB-1: my feet are (slipping/slippery).

      AB-1: I need a ladder. CAPT: we don’t have a ladder @AB-1. AB-1: (a line). CAPT: I don’t have a line @AB-1. AB-1: you gunna leave me

      AB-1: (I need someone to/help somebody) help me. (you don’t wanna/you gunna) help me? CAPT: I’m the only one here @AB-1.

      AB-1: (I can’t). AB-1: I can’t. AB-1: (I’m gone/I’m a goner).

  • Cad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    3 months ago

    That’s 2nd Mate Danielle Randolph who quoted Scooby. She and others tried to get the Captain to further change course around the weather. He did not. Everyone died.

    He just didn’t take the storm seriously enough and once things became dire it was clear that neither the ship nor the crew were properly set up to make it through. Bad maintence and poor training by the ship owner TOTE were the secondary causes.

    Once they abandoned ship they had little chance of survival due to outdated lifeboats and equipment.

    As bad as the Captain screwed up, in the end he seemed a good person. After giving the order to abandon ship, one of the crew understandably panicked and froze up. Captain Davidson did not leave him. He spent his final minutes trying to help that last man as the ship sank under them.

    The last we heard of 2nd Mate Randolph she had gone in search of life vests for herself, the Captain, and the panicked crewmen. She was there to the end as well.

      • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        Every day I seem to find more space in my heart for hate…

        I wish there weren’t so many people that deserved it.

        • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          If that’s your criterion you’re destined to be a hater. Obviously there are going to be opportunities for hate. The trick is to decide not to hate anyway.

          Leading with love is not about believing the world is all rainbows. Leading with love is about seeing the door to the dark side open and inviting, and not stepping through it.

          If the universe were so trivially easy to love that the door to the dark side was locked tight, there’d be no reason to grow up and take control of one’s own heart.

          Nothing personal just my own ramblings here. Obviously there are reasons to hate. The point is to choose to cultivate love, even when the ground is fertile for hate.

      • Cad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        First part of your comment isn’t true. I can’t find any source to back that up. The company did screw up in plenty of other ways. Then they tried to weasle out of the consequences as your link illustrates,. So still villians.