“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 … or 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, 1912
Captain, RMS Titanic, 1912
Captain Smith was planning to retire after the maiden voyage of Titanic. He is also quoted as saying: “This vessel could be cut in halves and each half would remain afloat almost indefinitely. The non-sinkable vessel has been reached in this wonderful craft.”
Not too much has changed in 100 or so years and we still find a lot of ignorance and a lack of risk awareness at the site level (We’ve never had a fire, claim, Lost time injury etc).
See our Web site: SafetyRich
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