Boating Accident/Death off Diamond Island

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Originally Posted by chillininnh

No amount of punishment levied upon her by a court of law and a jury of her peers will come close to the suffering she will endure living with the memory of this terrible tragedy.

1) Would you support a revocation of this captain's boating certificate?

2) If so—keeping in mind the summons-penalties—for how long?

Originally Posted by chipj29

There is nothing wrong (legally and morally) with having alcohol on a boat. Just because there is alcohol on a boat does not mean that the person piloting the boat has been drinking. It doesn't mean that anyone on the boat has been drinking. And it does not mean that any person on the boat is drunk.

The presence of alcohol on a boat means just one thing...that there is alcohol on a boat. Nothing more, nothing less. So yes, I am saying that as long as it is legal, it is perfectly acceptable.

1) Interesting insertion of morally into the debate: How about in automobiles? For truckers? For train engineers?

2) To ask the Union Leader's headline-question again:

"Horrible Accident or Drunken Crash?"

Keep in mind the following FACTS:

BAC of defendant Blizzard: .15
BAC of decedent Beaudoin: .14
BAC of injured-passenger Shinopoulos: .09

3) To the well-being of our fellow boaters, passengers and shoreline dwellers—while burdened with a Captain's responsibility, every one of us owes the highest and most-rigid of standards.

IMHO