You want to tell me there is one small radio with single channel on the billion dollar worth yacht.
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PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hot take: Since I’ve seen this article posted a ton lately…
Facts:
- Zuck wasn’t on board
- They were on a different radio channel than the distress call
- By the time they switched to the same radio channel, another vessel was already helping
- The distressed vessel was not in imminent danger, just without power
Be pissed at Zuck for all the right reasons. This isn’t one of them. The captain was just doing his job.
vane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not defending Zuck the Cuck, but just how many multi channel radios do you think they need to have? And how do you monitor and manage all those radios as a single crewmember on duty on the bridge ? Does an entity like the Coast Guard bear any responsibility to listen to the emergency channel and know how to contact the nearest ship/boat?
vane@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
stormeuh@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I agree with your point that no one on the megayacht is personally to blame, they’re just doing their job and (hopefully) not actively harming anyone.
It’s just a little surprising to me that there’s no mandate for ships above a certain displacement to carry a radio that’s permanently tuned to the emergency channel. You know, a large ship may be more likely to have a crew member listening, so may cut down response times if and when that stuff matters during an emergency.
Of course the coast guard should still be monitoring and coordinating, it’s just that maritime law requires you to respond to emergency calls, so why not mandate things so it’s more likely you’ll hear the emergency call? I guess that stuff is hard to mandate since all those ships are registered in Panama and the like, but still.
lando55@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Be pissed at Zuck for all the right reasons
His hair and face.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bootlicker. Captains job is to follow maritime law and listen out for and aid those in distress.
ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Is that what they’re saying. If they’re claiming that then it’s incompetence, which I’d love for that yacht, a crew captained by incompetence. (Spoiler: it’s not)
There are certain frequencies you broadcast for help on, those channels are always open. They heard the distress calls, life or death you help. Negligence plain and simple.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
There is a particular frequency that distress calls go out on, you are required by maritime law to always be tuned into that channel. So to claim that you are innocent because you weren’t tuned to the channel is like claiming that police didn’t respond to a 999 call because the operator was using the line to talk to their friends. They are still basically admitting to breaking the law.
Should they were not tuned into a illegally mandated frequency for a good while then. They still have questions to answer.
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Yeh, channel 16 is the emergency channel, but you don’t have to have your radio tuned to it 24/7. You can change channels if you want to speak privately to another boat or if you’re coming into dock. It’s not completely infeasible that they were talking on another channel and only switched back once the danger had passed.
sockinacock@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Did they call out on 16? The article I read implied (but admittedly didn’t outright state) they didn’t make a distress call and just called for general assistance, and they called the Coast Guard on 22A, then the Coast Guard issued an assistance request for them on . Which would mean that Zuck’s crew didn’t do anything illegal and was just skuzzy, as should be expected of anything connected to him. Still means they were either lying about/poorly keeping watch on 16 as the Coast Guard should have broadcast on it.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Have you ever sailed before?