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\u201cIn some of the biggest maritime cases in history,\u201d writes Degnarain<\/a>. \u201cit has often been the captain of large vessels that have been positioned as scapegoats by the very shipping companies that employ them and earn billions of dollars annually for their loyal service.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Forbes article goes deeper explaining that \u2018Blaming the crew\u2019 has been the go-to response for many ship owners, operators, maritime insurance firms, and \u2018flags of convenience\u2019 regulators, rather than addressing some of the bigger, systemic safety issues in the shipping world, that have gone unchecked for so long.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Degnarain and Devaney there are three reasons<\/a>:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1) crew errors are easier to recognize compared to poor ship design, poor maintenance, and poor enforcement of rules. <\/p>\n Like any good movie, I don\u2019t want to give away the ending but\u2026 \u00a0in the case of the M\/V Wakashio<\/a>, the combination of Degnarain\u2019s Harvard economics degree combined with his investigative journalist experience has uncovered a story just as strange and twisted as any Hollywood blockbuster. You can read the full story here: The \u2018Dark Forces\u2019 Surrounding The Captain\u2019s Lawyers In Mauritius Wakashio Oil Spill Ship Case<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIn some of the biggest maritime cases in history,\u201d writes Degnarain. \u201cit has often been the captain of large vessels that have been positioned as scapegoats by the very shipping companies that employ them and earn billions of dollars annually for their loyal service.\u201d The Forbes article goes deeper explaining that \u2018Blaming the crew\u2019 has …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1298,7323,10275,12115,10994,12114,166,9717,4526],"class_list":["post-19076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-arrested","tag-captains","tag-dark","tag-economist","tag-explains","tag-harvard","tag-oil","tag-spilled","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/19077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2) ship investigators are incentivized to only focus on the surface, operational issues rather than the systemic issues underlying them.
\n3) blaming the crew is the easy way out to avoid identifying culpability of the ship owners, constructors, or those responsible for ship maintenance.<\/p>\n