Sometimes Safety doesn’t work out how it was planned:
A safety drill gone wrong on a cruise ship resulted in the death of five crew members in Spain’s Canary Islands, Thomson Cruises said.
Three other workers were injured, the cruise line said. The accident happened just before noon Sunday on board the Thomson Majesty while it was docked in La Palma, one of the Canary Islands.
As part of the drill, a lifeboat was lowered into the water to test the evacuation procedure for passengers.
“Unfortunately, when the boat was being raised back up, one of the wires snapped, resulting in the boat falling back into the water,” a Thomson representative said via e-mail Monday.
I think this is a prime example of the “If it saves just one life” argument from those who use “Gun Death”. The “Common Sense” solution for this would be to simply never train ship crews how to use safety equipment, and therefore prevent such accidents…but leaving them totally ignorant in the event of an emergency, putting vastly more in danger in the event of an accident.
“If it saves one life” can frequently come at the loss of HUNDREDS, but just like these deaths don’t count in their books, the lives saved from guns don’t count either!
h/t Wallphone
