"Skipper's privilege" goes horribly wrong.

[Valiente]

I shouldn't laugh at this, but come on.

You can't just let a couple of lines like "The 49-year-old captain of the tugboat Regent, owned by Humphries Tug & Barge of Campbell River, never thought he’d die doing what he loved.

But on Tuesday, he stepped outside to urinate and stumbled, falling overboard."


Tugboat captain survives 70 minutes in frigid Georgia Strait after falling overboard while taking a pee

Yeah, I love urinating, too, but I don't consider it a vocation.

[AdamLein]

A rescue vessel was dispatched from Port Hardy? That's like, 100 nm away... Even the heli from Chilliwac (125 nm) is kinda far. Don't they have any rescue operations in Campbell River? Even Vancouver (which has both Coast Guard and helicopters) is closer than both of those places.

[AdamLein]

p.s. maybe his vocation was in embodying apocryphal statistics that are perpetuated by urban legend?

[WouldaShoulda]

Originally Posted by AdamLein

p.s. maybe his vocation was in embodying apocryphal statistics that are perpetuated by urban legend?

Must be!!

Because if it was that cold, I'd have used the head.

Heck, I'd pee in a jar before stepping outside in that!!

[SimonV]

Thats the reason I dont let enyone piss over the side, I have a small bucket at the rear of the cockpit and that is what we use. One guy was above pissing in the bucket but after he was thrown from the rear lazarett and the only thing thst kept him aboard was he grabed the radar mast and did a compleate 360 bruising his back on the pushpit rail. To whip your old fella out of your foulies takes two hands.

If it turns into a beer fest then the larger phone omes out, it is a funnel and 3 fett ot garden hose tied to the cockpit combing and the hose goes into the cockpit drain.

[erps]

I remember an old Coastie who was giving some instruction at a boating safety class 20 odd years ago saying that a large number of the floaters they recovered had their flies unzipped, fell overboard while checking to see how deep the water was.

[sailingdog]

Unfortunately, this is far more common than you'd think. One hand for yourself and one hand for the ship still applies if you've got your fly open.

[AdamLein]

Originally Posted by WouldaShoulda

Because if it was that cold, I'd have used the head.

See, now you're perpetuating an urban legend. Canada isn't the frigid waste everybody makes it out to be. The article says the water was 8 degrees C. C'mon that's practically equatorial.

[AjariBonten]

ouch, that bites

[Valiente]

Only if you land on a shark or turtle or dare I say a conger eel.