One morning in the year 2009 a passenger ship set sail from Los Angeles on a cruise to Indonesia. Aboard were 400 passengers, and a crew of 200, and a Captain of color, with an unusual name. He had been hired by the shipping line after a majority of former and future passengers complained that they had lost confidence in the previous Captain because of his incompetence. The new Captain had been selected from a panel recommended by a number of Travel industry organizations, and former passengers.
Among the crew, some 80 were loyal supporters of the former Captain, and resentful of the new skipper, who they considered illegitimate. They vowed to sabotage his performance by disobeying his orders, even to the point of mutiny.
While in mid Pacific the ship struck a huge mound of mostly submerged debris, resulting from a Typhoon in Taiwan. The hull was breached and the ship began taking huge amounts of water, more than the automatic pumps could expel. The Captain ordered the crew to take turns manning the manual pumps, but the 80 recalcitrants
refused, intending that the sunk ship would destroy the Captain's career. As the pumpers became exhausted and were unable to continue, the ship foundered and sank.
As they sank beneath the surface for the last time, the leader of the mutineers was heard to exclaim "that black S.O.B. got what was coming to him", one of the pumpers exclaimed "we tried!", and one of the passengers cried out "you bastards were being payed to protect us!".
Moral: If you cut it off to spite your face, it becomes very difficult to blow your nose!
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So , according to this story,the ship with the black captain sank. But the twenty in the crew who refused to pump said "we did not like where the ship was going". The others in the crew thought the young captain had been overconfident in his navigation. And the passengers thought the insurance rates and their tickets in a new ship would go up dratiscally anyway.
The captain did not go down with his ship.
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