Off Course

I am taking a short detour here to stick up for the iceberg that the Titanic hit. Poor, poor iceberg, it will never be the same and you can take that to the bank. Sure, the Titanic was moving across the north Atlantic but so was the iceberg and, if I guess correctly, the iceberg had the right of way as it lived there and Titanic was just passing through. Hell, the iceberg was calved in the Atlantic (or the Arctic Ocean, if you’re going to be a stickler.) Obviously, the iceberg was there first but should have had a horn to blow but most don’t. Why would they, it’s their ocean?

If a semi-truck is barrelling down the highway in your lane you would move aside, right. The iceberg couldn’t but perhaps it had been drinking? It’s difficult to say all these centuries later but its been known to happen according to a couple of captains I know. At least, that was their excuse for ship to ship accidents. But, I digress don’t I?

It seems to me that the courts need to allow right of way to icebergs because, let’s face it, not all captains can see very far ahead when they’ve been drinking. Maybe that captain, his name escapes me, should not have been on the sauce that night, or any other night. The poor lookout! If he had been driving this wouldn’t have happened, Unless he was drinking to? Probably not because it is a long climb up to the Crow’s Nest.and drunks make lousy climbers.

I wanted to run this by you to see if you agree that it was not the iceberg’s fault. Cheap rivets to, I might add. What did they expect? It is difficult to ascertain isn’t it?

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