Early in my 13+ years of living aboard my sailboat (boy I miss those days) some diesel fuel wafted past my pier at the marina in which I lived. Being unable to determine the source (I am vision impaired), and it being a cold Sunday with no others to help me, I called the Coast Guard to report the spill. The Coasties arrived and seeing the by now long strip of diesel fuel (you could smell it all over the 250+ slip marina) put down a few booms and about 30 oil-absorbing pads. They also called the Harbormaster at home and told him to come and finish the clean-up. Two hours later, tide going out the whole time, he showed up after the diesel had all escaped into the San Francisco bay except for the still smelly traces on piers and boats. His ONLY action? He yelled at me for an hour about how his Sunday had been ruined by ME,
Apparently pouring gallons of fuel into the ocean (by the way the Coasties said it had happened in the parking lot next door, the storm drain emptied directly into the marina waters) is not a problem to him, missing a football game is a problem for him. After listening to him rant I called the Coast Guard again and informed them that I would not be bothering to report any future oil spills and exactly why THAT was true. We got a new Harbormaster 6 months later... So, unreasonable crap happens. Everywhere, all the time. Life sucks. Then you die. Eric Thompson Brookdale, California [email protected] _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
