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General Com-Pac and Sailing Related Discussions => Com-Pac Sailors Lounge => Topic started by: Vipersdad on December 23, 2012, 07:48:42 PM

Title: Another Interesting Quote
Post by: Vipersdad on December 23, 2012, 07:48:42 PM
 "When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident ... of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."


Edward J. Smith, 1907
Captain, RMS Titanic

(struck iceberg and went to the bottom
just five years later)
Title: Re: Another Interesting Quote
Post by: skip1930 on December 24, 2012, 11:48:56 AM
Opps!

Never say never. skip.
Title: Re: Another Interesting Quote
Post by: Bob23 on December 24, 2012, 01:16:10 PM
Complacency...our enemy! Never get too comfortable.
Bob23