stranded at sea

shanook · June 23, 2008, 17:36:59 CET

hhehe thats driving sirena imagine while working and laying a long line with the weight and hooks about hehehhe some ppl just try to be funny. I am not saying that if busu has to be on a boat working again he wouldnt take more precautions but that does not mean that he can come out in a different situation. All accidents are in different circumstances and with different effects.

shanook · June 23, 2008, 17:38:09 CET

hey nick i did post on the times does it take a long time to be placed there.

skip · June 23, 2008, 17:39:30 CET

Yes for some reason it sometimes never comes up! ,can take 30 minutes or more or has a mind of its own. I think however that a junior editor checks them for approval before allowing them to go up.

busumark · June 23, 2008, 20:18:26 CET

i think they stopped the comments i added an other comment but nothing

jessijames 2 · June 24, 2008, 01:27:37 CET

Hi Mark

I didn't post on the times because i don't care what that kind of people have to say and i will not give them the opportunity to talk form there behind.I noticed that you did things that not a lot of people do in a case like this ,you tried to save the boat by empting the water. That's what a real sea men will do.The sea men wanna be sitting on a boat wearing a life jaket flares in one hand and on the other hand some flash light. The only thing you have to say is you are a tax payer and you weren't treated like one. Any way F them the most impotant thing is that it didn't effect you in any way and went fishing again. HAPPY FISHING.

busumark · June 24, 2008, 18:43:53 CET

to-morrow there is supposed to be an article in The Times with the armies comments and my reaction to there comments. and a high ranking official from the army is supposed to make contact with to see what could have been done better.

shanook · June 24, 2008, 18:51:13 CET

Mark why dont u and the other three make a press conference regarding the way things went. Only do it if u think it will help otherwise dont bother.

busumark · June 24, 2008, 19:01:17 CET

i dont think there is the need for a press conference. we have a friend who is an official on the patrol boat. he phone my friend(the owner of the boat) and he excused himself in the name of the army and said that somewhere there was a mistake. i wait for the top ranking official to call me and then see from there

shanook · June 24, 2008, 19:04:35 CET

Well if they did that then there is no need to push it furthur i suppose. Everyone makes mistakes, we are only human. Its true the consequences could have been disatrious but thank God it ended well.

Granitu · June 25, 2008, 09:28:26 CET

i wouldn't hold it exactly busu..... i would let an article pending if something in the future happens.... there is no excuse for their behavior....

if they are unable to save people, just tell us and we pay no licenses....., for a bunch of illegal immigrants, for the sake of othe church, europe ect.. they would go with all resources....

for a fellow maltese vessel in distress they think it is a joke.......... they should be asamhed of it. they don't want it to go a lot in public because their positions are at stake

skip · June 25, 2008, 10:43:12 CET

Looks like the article didn't come out in todays paper, maybe tomorrow

busumark · June 25, 2008, 14:23:11 CET

phoned the journalist and told me it is supposed to be publish to-morrow, he even told me that the most top officail of the army is supposed to contact me. he told me to give him some time and if he doeasnt make contact with me i tell him again.

The_Gaffer · June 25, 2008, 17:14:17 CET

A distress signal goes out with the exact position, an SAR team are dispatched, and they return with nothing!!!!. Someone should be help responsible. Demand to see the boat's logbook, and enquire whether an investigation has been launched to determine why the SAR team returned empty handed. This is absolute BS. There is no compromise with human life. Its not rocket science to determine direction of drift from when a distress call is received until the SAR party arrive on site. They sould have gone through the area with a fine toothcomb, and not just shone a light in the general direction, peered out, and left!!!!I cannot accept this attitude.

fishfinder · June 25, 2008, 19:15:28 CET

well said Gaffer,

we need more respect on the sea cause out there although we have all the equipment you might not have the chance to get out of the boat with all of it time. After all that's why we're paying heavy taxes, registrations blah blah blah.

Mark

keep us informed

skip · June 26, 2008, 06:46:43 CET

Todays's Headline: 'Two Helicopters Deployed to Rescue Migrants'

Should read: 'Two Helicopters Deployed to Rescue Migrants - None Deployed for Maltese'