A Shipwreck Tale

6 Comments on A Shipwreck Tale

1. An object lesson about why you NEVER trust authority to look after your own safety, and why you use your own common sense to decide when its time to leave.

   Specific to this, don’t go to an interior cabin in a listing ship. At LEAST stay on deck.

   Generally speaking, always assume that no one cares about you BUT you, regardless of the uniform they wear or the title they bear.

   You will rarely be disappointed in this expectation.

   This applies to governments as much as it does ships.

   Draw your own conclusions.

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2. I couldn’t make it through the hyper delivery of the narrator during his intro.

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3. …the Government of South Korea obfuscated so much, they even drove rescuers to their deaths.

   “Kim Gwan-hong’s voice took on an indignant tone as he testified as a witness in a parliamentary audit of the Ministry of Public Safety and Security last September by the National Assembly Security and Public Administration Committee. Then 42, he was a civilian diver who had gone to the scene at Jindo on Apr. 23, 2014, a week after the Sewol ferry sinking. “It wasn’t somewhere I went to make money. My ‘crime’ was going there as a matter of conscience. If there’s a disaster, don’t call the public. The government needs to figure this stuff out on its own [in the future],” Kim said.
   “The victims were tangled together in their utter terror, and I prayed for and cradled each one of them as I brought them,” he raged after braving the pitch black conditions in the 48-meter ocean depths.
   Early in the morning of June 17, Kim was found dead in the greenhouse where he lived in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, three days before he turned 43 years old.
   No specific cause of death has yet been reported. But closed circuit camera footage showed him returning home around 2 am that night and drinking on his own before collapsing an hour later. The images, along with the discovery at the scene of a fallen pill bottle and final text messages to acquaintances with messages such as “I’m sorry” and “I’ll see you in a better place in a next life,” lead to the seemingly inescapable conclusion that he took his own life.”
   ht tps://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/748728.html

   …There are many sources of this story if you don’t like this version, worthwhile because its a tale of ordinary incompetence that can kill you even if you’re just doing something usual and mundane; a story of cowardice and dereliction of duty in an emergency; an object lesson in the fallacy of blindly trusting authority; and the most despicable government response to it that made heroes out of villians, corpses out of heroes, and lies to the families of the dead TO THIS DAY.

   This is a good version. Kind of long, but its a lot to unpack. I recommend watching both parts, its a pretty hideous story beginning to end.

   ht tps://youtu.be/Mu6ajjrquSU

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4. Grab the anchor and hold on tight.

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5. aircubed
   JANUARY 30, 2023 AT 9:04 AM
   “Grab the anchor and hold on tight.”

   …pretty much what we’ve done in this Nation since 2020…

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6. I’ll never put on a life jacket again.

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