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Is this man a magnet for accidents at sea?
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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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It's my understanding that anyone operating a ship is required by law to respond to distress calls. Though it would be something to issue a distress call and have a luxury yatch respond
How enforceable would that be though? Do ships keep logs of received transmissions? Like how hard would it be to hear the distress call and just turn off the radio?
If the transmission isn't recorded there's no way of knowing if a person deliberately ignored a distress signal or just didn't receive it.
All true, but enforcement, and the law itself, are unnecessary. I've never known a sailor that would even consider ignoring a distress call.
Asshole passenger maybe, but not the crew. So on second thought, the law gives the crew something to say to an asshole passenger who wants to ignore a call.
Haha that's a good way to put it