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Interview with the Skipper - Surfin Santana 22

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ClamBeach
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Initially Posted - 04/20/2005 : 10:12:13

Interesting interview about the incident. Apparently the skipper had been focusing on a problem poling out the jib. By the time he realized how big the surf was inside the south tower... too late.

This is a classic syndrome implicated in lots of accidents (especially aircraft)... excessive focus on a minor problem leads to lack of 'situational awareness'.

Here's a link to the interview.

http://sailmag.com/SAILBOATCRASH/

WOTAM - '77 Catalina 25 SK/SR Sail Number 158

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 04/20/2005 : 11:02:49

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">...excessive focus on a minor problem leads to lack of 'situational awareness'.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">... And that's not just a problem for pilots and skippers. I'd say the most common (and most costly over all) example is distracted car drivers -- yaking on the cell, fumbling for snacks, studying road maps, disiplining unruly kids, etc. (OK, end of lecture!

I've done most of those things too!

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-- Leon Sisson

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Buzz Maring
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Response Posted - 04/20/2005 : 12:53:56

I'd love to know how they salvaged the boat ... does anyone have an idea of how they might have gone about raising her and getting her back to the slip?

BTW, Bruce & Leon, you're right on ... any time distractions cause you to break a habit pattern, look out ... that's when bad stuff happens. When I was an Air Force instructor pilot, I used to preach that all the time ... I'd like to think that preaching saved some lives over the years ... I know it probably saved my backside more than once.

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 04/20/2005 : 16:21:42

I don't know how this boat was salvaged, but when a boat sank in 30' of water on Brookville Lake, a scuba diving club put tractor tire inner tubes inside and under it and filled them with air from their tanks, and re-floated the boat enough to maneuver it over to a boat ramp and onto the trailer. Then they pumped the water out of the interior and gradually pulled it up the boat ramp.

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