Quote Originally Posted by higher4hockey
so its better when your natural rope rots and a 20 ton cargo container squashes a sailor like a bug ?

im sorry, but i dont think thats a very good arguement you're making.
No. It doesn't rot out of the blue. That is like saying we shouldn't make wooden houses because they can rot and you can fall through the floor.
angry nomad Reviewed by angry nomad on . How the War on Drugs kills our Sailors When I was in the Coast Guard, I learned of the dangers of a rope under tension "parting" (breaking). This happens when a rope under stress gets too taught, and there is a yank, or slow increase to the point of parting. When a rope parts there is snapback, like a whip or a rubberband breaking. Sailors have been literally sliced in half instantly by a rope parting. Oftentimes when you hear of a sailor dying in a "boating accident" (not drowning) this is how he died, but they don't say it Rating: 5