Don't get me wrong...I admire that you're willing to share this story. In my community you get it twice for letting everyone know you made a mistake...first for making the mistake and then for letting everyone know you did it. It's really odd because I've never heard of a ship falling to the bottom of the ocean as fast a plane can fall out of the sky, so you think safety would be something easily shared around here.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go light some incense and pray to King Neptune that my lat. transfer goes through.