Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
Funny, but if he hadn't grabbed that topsail halyard I, and many others, wouldn't be here today.
It's always funny to think of these kinds of things. One person has a close call, and the outcome ripples out through history. Think about how many ancestors you have stretching all the way back through time and how many of them probably had brushes with death or had choices that could have led them down some different route that would have meant you would never have existed.