Party Boat Tragedy
21 January 2012
John
December 26, 2011
It seems being the Captain of the Ship could land you in jail these days. First the fishing boat accident and now a party boat accident in our home port of Puerto Penasco. The captain took his paying, elderly customers out for a sunset cruise in a gale with a troublesome engine. The engine sputtered and he tried to hold the ship off a reef with a 30# rebar anchor. The result was the ship got holed and a passenger died. And just recently a mega-cruise ship in Italy hits a reef. All three captains survive but end up in the brig.