Comments on: Captain of the Nathaniel B. Palmer Fired for Fighting http://bigdeadplace.com/frontierwatch/?p=51&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=captain-of-the-nathaniel-b-palmer-fired-for-fighting News and Commentary for Antarctic stations Thu, 07 May 2009 05:47:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: JD http://bigdeadplace.com/frontierwatch/?p=51&cpage=1#comment-218 JD Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:08:19 +0000 http://bigdeadplace.com/frontierwatch/?p=51#comment-218 More fighting! this time, on the boat! Ok, so that means that Palmer must be next.

]]> By: Anonymous http://bigdeadplace.com/frontierwatch/?p=51&cpage=1#comment-208 Anonymous Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:02:19 +0000 http://bigdeadplace.com/frontierwatch/?p=51#comment-208 Just a clarification, for those who know the crew – the guy who got fired was the relief captain, not the official / head captain of the NBP.

]]> By: m http://bigdeadplace.com/frontierwatch/?p=51&cpage=1#comment-203 m Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:37:53 +0000 http://bigdeadplace.com/frontierwatch/?p=51#comment-203 Apparently, the ship’s ice pilot suffered a broken nose, and it took several crew members to subdue the cap’n. It seems that his falling down the stairs resulted from being decked by the chief engineer (or so I assume from a summary of the whole deal I got from someone on board).

Having worked with the now-fired captain, I thought he was a helluva guy, but I definitely wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of his drunken rampaging. I was actually supposed to be on board at the time, but opted out of that cruise for various personal reasons. I’m almost (but not quite) sad to have missed it.

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