Marine Insight's Bikram Singh has an interesting piece about what goes into abandoning a ship. There are sides, accusations and situations that we really don't know what goes into these situations. Mr. Singh, puts it in perspective
Consider a ship getting stranded in bad weather due to which she finds herself struggling to stay afloat. In such circumstances what are the chances that her crew would fight against the odds and survive a tragedy? Would they simply abandon her leaving her high and dry or if given a choice, will they stay aboard the ship considering it to be as a much safer course of action to call for help and getting it too?
Abandoning a ship may seem to be the most practical option out there to survive a catastrophe, but as challenging as it may seem, it might not be the last alternative.
We’ve often heard of the age old advice to never abandon the floating ship until the point where one, although unwillingly, has to step into the survival craft
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