One of my neighbours did that, decided to catch 40 winks, and drove into one of the fishery protection vessels. He gets pulled up every time he goes out now.
BTW, there's nothing to stop the captain getting off first but as the captain is the owners representative and leaving early can affect the salvage rights. For a passenger vessel the captain is supposed to coordinate the evacuation and I suppose could be charged with reckless endangerment or similar.
More details on salvage here azgiles.blogspot.com/2011/03/so-why-does-captain-go-down-with-ship.html (with a long rant at the end about ETVs but you can ignore that bit)
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Tue 17 Jan 2012, 22:01,
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BTW, there's nothing to stop the captain getting off first but as the captain is the owners representative and leaving early can affect the salvage rights. For a passenger vessel the captain is supposed to coordinate the evacuation and I suppose could be charged with reckless endangerment or similar.
More details on salvage here azgiles.blogspot.com/2011/03/so-why-does-captain-go-down-with-ship.html (with a long rant at the end about ETVs but you can ignore that bit)
Thanks for the added info,you stealthily jumped in there and helped make me informed, which the news hasn't really done, so some kind of award to you!
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Tue 17 Jan 2012, 23:24,
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