Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries.
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented.
When it comes to human life, clearly I want to make sure we are doing all we can to protect people, and we must remember that this is one of the most treacherous stretches of water that there is - 21 miles, people taking grave risks.
None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.
So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.
More people die on a yearly basis crossing the Florida Straits than ever died trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.
I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system.
Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
I would not want to be on a cruise ship. Some ferry crossings I'm not too thrilled about.
Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
