People give more thought to securing credit card documentation and automobile security systems than their own lives. We accept industrywide insults from air carriers in the name of security and then blithely sit in stale,recycled air, filled with insecticides, trying to retie the shoes we removed at security while a worm gear in the tail is failing. How many people board ships and even look to see where the fire extinguishers, liferafts or PFD's are? I just investigated a job pushing boats at Catalina Island. It required a 50 ton certificate. One of the applicants had alcohol on his breath and I swear one guy had a parrot and gold earring. The company just wanted bodies. They didn't get mine, I'm to fond of it, as anyone venturing on land,sea or air should be <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />