It is so incongruous... a person doesn't rise to the level of Ship's Captain unless they are highly competent. And yet this incident simply reeks of incompetence from beginning to aftermath. Soooooo... you almost would have to believe a very strong outside or atypical influence had to be in play here. What that could be is very hard to say. I'm just a lowly bareboat charter skipper with no accreditation, and yet I would never have acted with the incompetence displayed by this professional captain.