Putting ourselves in the shoes of a captain of a 200-foot Coast Guard cutter with a crew of only 16 can be hard to imagine. As the role of the captain, everyone looks to you in direction of what needs to be done upon an emergency case. It is important characteristic as the captain to analyze each possible outcome of your decisions before the final one could be made. During the Coast Guard Cutter Decision, when there’s potential yet not definite chance of finding survivors after a reported plane…
some orders to his crew, while the sun beats down on his face. The smell of the water filled the nostrils of the crew, as they sailed for home. In The Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou, Odysseus and Everett went on long journeys to get back to their family. However, they did not embark on the journey alone, each had a crew that came with them. The crews were not extras in a Batman movie, they were huge parts of the journey that added to the plot. While looking at the crews of Odysseus and…
Odysseus has bad,good sides,for example in the story that he knows how to rescue his crew from trouble.and with his intellects skill,bravery he blinded the horrifying mighty polyphemus or cyclop,also was able to win the trojan war.The bad sides about Odysseus that in the story he let some of his men died, also not telling his crews about the sea monsters, he refuses to leave the cyclops's cave,and let some of his crew get eaten very badly.He blames on his mens on the raid on the cicones for not…
Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance survived a very risky trial. The expedition tested many things, not disregarding patience. Were there ways Shackleton could have done better? The Crew? Was the expedition a waste of time overall? Could this survival story be too glorified? The expedition was a success in a sense that Shackleton accompanied by the crew of the Endurance, had gone through one of the most extraordinary survival situations in history. They had survived a 635 day journey in one…
H.P. Lovecraft’s Temple tells the story of how a German crew on a badly damaged ship during World War One slowly descends into madness. A combination of odd sightings, fear, illness, and eventually violence and suicide leave the protagonist, Karl Heinrich, all by himself on a doomed ocean voyage. Ultimately he leaves his ship and dies while exploring what he believes to be Atlantis. An episode of Star Trek: Voyager titled “Bliss” also deals with theme of a descent into madness. This science…
13 how about crew members on the mission. The crew was ready to launch until they had a problem with the ship. They had to hold back the mission for a couple of seconds. The Apollo 13 mission had technical problems with the spaceship. This missions took place in April, 11 1970 (apollo 13).The crew was excited to launch. The crew member worked so hard for this mission. Their names are Jim Lovell, Fred Hares, and Jack Swigert. All the training the crew member had to do. One of the crew members…
Walther Schäffer; has origins in the short lived RGA Gruppe “Ragnarök 14,” made up of members with a known service record within the Civil Guard. Organization: Instead of following its predecessor’s formation of 14 six man crews, Adelbu crews work in groups of ten eight man crews, much like most the RGA. These groups are organized within one cohesive organizational entity that answers personally to Walther Schäffer and his trusted second in command, Gerhard Voss. Tactics: Adelburgers, as the…
decisions that would affect everyone, but himself. Primarily, Magellan showed no respect towards others, especially his crew. When his crew was exhausted after a long night's sleep he wouldn’t let them have the chance to rest, instead they had to look out at night while he went to sleep; to his crew sleep was a luxury. While he was eating all the food that he wanted his crew had to ration their share.…
the ship's stability and mental health and well-being of the crew. HAL being a computer he couldn’t be completely trusted and caused him to lie about a mechanical failure and killed the crew. Dave, the main crew member, knew that “ I am so much more capable than you are of supervising the ship”(187) than HAL after he said that he would control the ship. After explaining this to the computer he proceeded to tell him that “When the crew are dead or incapacitated ... the onboard computer must…
king and queen, who offered him money to make an expedition in 1532 to Peru, where he founded Lima. Him and his crew of over 500 men traveled to Peru to claim land. It took them over 7 months to reach Peru, and they found an interesting surprise. They were not expecting a colony of Incas and their leader, Atahualpa. Francisco Pizarro hadn’t given any orders as to what to do, and his crew had already sprung into action on what they wanted to do, without his knowledge. They decided to kidnap…