Did you try backing up and moving forward?
(As heard over the ship’s intercom five minutes before the incident):
This is the Bridge to Port Side Bow Lookout #2, report the ship’s clearance from the sandbars by the shore.
Port Side Bow Lookout #2, come in, please.
Bridge to Port Side Bow Lookout #2, respond!
Port Side Bow Lookout #2, you are to report the ship’s clearance from the sandbars by the shore immediately!
Port Bow Lookout 2, we need to know if we’re clear, respond!
Port Bow Lookout 2, why aren’t you responding?
This is the Bridge to the Deck Officer. Who do you have assigned to Port Side Bow Lookout #2, and why is he failing to respond to several calls?
Deck Officer to Bridge, that would be that new recruit we brought aboard at San Diego, Seaman Randolph. I’ve disciplined him time and time again about focusing on correcting people’s grammar on the internet instead of doing his job.
Deck Officer, this is the Bridge, get someone over there right now to verify that we won’t run aground! It’s never happened before, but this entire ship could become lodged sideways and block this canal, preventing all other vessels from . . .
[[[THUMP! SCRAAAAAPE! SCREEEEEEEEECH TO A HALT!]]]
Er, um, Deck Officer, this is the Bridge. Both you and that Randolph character can clean out your desks, you’re out of here!
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Haven’t you mentioned it before, at least a dozen times?
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This is a completely open public forum. If you expect a private conversation with someone here, a private messages is one of the options available to you.
Livvie 