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COPYRIGHT 2005 U.S. Navy Safety Center
Simon and Garfunkel once crooned those words. Here's a mishap that illustrates the need to slow down sometimes or to cut the number of simultaneous evolutions.
Our ship was in the middle of a material inspection. For this inspection, we had to rig and demonstrate nearly every piece of deck gear onboard. Among the items on our list were four unrep stations, heavy-weather lifelines, towing gear, sterngate emergency-raising gear, close-in refueling rig, accommodation ladders, well-deck and flight-deck gear, and small boats. We had spent long hours poring over...
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