Also:
Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht didn’t hear boat’s call for help off Alaska coast, spokesperson says
So not better when you’re required to listen for distress channel.
Fines for billionaires should START at $1 billion dollars, and that’s for a speeding or jaywalking ticket. Something like this should be a $50 billion dollar fine, for each time the call was ignored.
And whoever made the decision to ignore the call goes to prison. If Zuckerfuck himself made the decision, then it’s 10 years in prison, and the confiscation of all his yacht, and he will never be allowed to own a water raft ever again. No yachts for you, after you get out of jail in 10 years.
Or, put him on his yacht, blow a hole in the hull, and ignore his pleas for help. Let him figure it out like he made others do, when he ignored their calls for help. See how he likes it in the shark infested ocean.
Because basic human decency have no ROI for them, duh.
They declined because he doesn’t care about anyone but himself. Simple enough when you approach all his actions from this point of view they become predictable.
In Victorian times fiction like Jules Verne’s novels and the like, rich yachtsmen saving the day is kind of a trope. What I’m trying to say is that the previous iteration of super rich fucks had some kind of heroic idea of themselves, some kind of noblesse oblige. These cunts are just cunts.
For some cases, actual noblesse were also the government and they lived among the people. They also took pride in the family image because it was political capital. It surely wasn’t perfect but it wasn’t as bad as the US and their glorified cupidity.
Ah yes, the generation of super rich fucks who were happy to have children mangled in the machinery of their textile factories had “noblesse oblige.”
had some kind of heroic idea of themselves
Reading is hard
Probably the past ones are just fiction as well. Probably they always ignored pleas for help. But they paid for writers to say differently. Or just lied about it.
You’re right. And our ruling class can probably point out to the absolute amount of money they spend on their foundations of choice to say they are even more charitable than the Victorians. Ugh.
ewwwwww poor people on the starboard side of the yacht
why would a android, let an “organic lifeform” taint his "perfection.
As a sailor (the recreational kind and former Navy) I find this particularily vile. In my experience, all boats, whether large or small, cheap or expensive, recreational or commercial stop everything they are doing when there’s a distress call vaguely in their vicinity. At the very least everyone is turning up their radio to monitor what is happening and having dedicated personell whatching the seas for the distraught vessel or event. It is espescially true if you have the equipment, the men power, the time and the money to spare going above and beyond.
In my oppinion aiding those in need at sea is the most basic and fundamental thing to do as a sailor. Those sailors that comply with orders not to help should never ever be allowed on a ship again. Despicable pieces of shit.
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ppinion aiding those in needat seais the most basic and fundamental thing to doas a sailor.So, you might know þe answer to þis: I’ve always believed þat it was illegal for captains to ignore distress signals at sea. Is þat not true?
Well it’s simple. Its because he’s a prick.
damn so much for my plans of using a distress signal to get close to him for non-nefarious reasons.
I believe that by international law all vessels have to offer assistance to someone in distress.
You’re correct about this. I was just looking it up myself.
There is indeed international maritime law governing vessels, and they must proceed with all possible haste to distress signals. Unfortunately, there are two problems here as I understand the situation:
- Believe it if you want to or don’t but - the people operating Zuckerberg’s yacht claim they hadn’t heard or noticed the distress signal
- The Coast Guard - who, importantly, the stranded skiff had initially contacted - didn’t consider their situation to be worthy of “distress” and thus Zuckerberg and his yachtspeople didn’t violate any regulations or laws.
That is why you have a captain to toss under the bus when rich enough.
Ultimately the captain is responsible and should face consequences.
And this is the flaw, they pay them a lot to take the fall as part of the job. Plenty will do so with a smile on their faces and international law and decency suffers.
Agreed, this is definitely what happened. There is probably also a sense of being able to do anything you like since your boss is rich.
Not just a sense, a very real ability. This might mean they can’t captain a ship anymore, but unlikely to see any real punishment.
Even without knowing the law in detail, I’m certain rich people have a (designed) loophole around it. He’ll captain another ship if he wants to
The captain is not the rich guy here. These super yachts tend to get captains near the end of their career who know the deal. They get nice paychecks to do shit like this and then take the fall if needed, that is the loophole.
His yacht has a dingy as you can see at the stern.
Yachts of this size not only have dinghys they have full-size motor yachts serving as tenders.
Like what kind of fucking trash do you have to be? It’s a floating luxury palace, I’m sure it has a helicopter aboard it. He’s in no rush, all the money in the world, and with the opportunity comes up to be a good person, he not only refused to help once, but repeatedly.
The captain should be stripped of their license and he should be unable to own or operate a boat within American waters. Better yet, make him pay 250 million to park it in a US harbor, and spring it on him with the boat has no choice but to dock and refuel in the US.
“but what if they get their poorness all over my boat!?”
Yuckerburg change his story today and said that they didn’t hear it. I read it in another article people from another boat not sure which one were booing them so they must have known ?
Subhuman
Mark Zuckerberg has faced questions over why a small cruise ship in south-east Alaska rescued a stranded skiff and its crew when his 387ft superyacht had been closer.
The Silicon Valley billionaire’s yacht, worth a reported $300m, is said to have “repeatedly” declined to assist when a nearby boat called for help last week.
Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms, was not onboard at the time, a spokesperson told Forbes.
So, basically, it starts to look like they have standing orders to be selfish and anti-social to point of pushing up against maritime law.
Why wouldn’t they? The investigatory agency for this is the USCG, and last I recall, the man in charge of Homeland Security and the rest of the US is pretty comfy with doing favors for his billionaire friends.
The reply? Because I didn’t want the poors on my yacht.
He is a disgusting parasite PoS – also an acceptable answer.
