Maritime Risk Quotes

I'm really - there's more of a chance that I stay on the Titanic than - than I go on, you know, on a Donald Trump boat.

Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

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.

In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing in this arena for a long time, but I could never find the angle of what kind of story.

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.