Boat Captain hired by BP for cleanup commits suicide.

[puckluck]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

How many bloody times does it need to be repeated that BP is already dealing with claims related to the economic damage from this?

The newspaper related that Baldwin County Coroner Stan Vinson "said witnesses told investigators that Kruse had been upset about the loss of business caused by the closing of fishing grounds and public perceptions of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill."

Ironically, other local fishermen, who admired Kruse, had turned to him for advice on working for BP in the cleanup program. . The Washington Post talked to Capt. Chris Garner, who recalled Kruse telling him, "Don't try to rationalize it. . . . Just sign your name and get on your boat, and don't try to tell anybody how to run the program, and don't try to tell 'em what the local knowledge is." Garner told him, "Rookie, that sounds an awful lot like prison." Kruse replied, 'That's a pretty good analysis, Chris. It's just like prison.'" Less than a week later, he was dead.

It's pretty obvious from reading the article and specifically these two paragraphs that the fisherman were not happy with the way they were being treated and how they were being compensated. They went from doing the thing they love to do the most in fishing and ended up helping with the cleanup in the Gulf.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by puckluck

It's pretty obvious from reading the article and specifically these two paragraphs that the fisherman were not happy with the way they were being treated and how they were being compensated. They went from doing the thing they love to do the most in fishing and ended up helping with the cleanup in the Gulf.

Okay, that's fair enough, but a rational person would likely look at it a totally different way.

1) I love fishing
2) Due to an oil spill I can no longer fish
3) Cleanup efforts are ongoing, and are necessare if the fishing industry is to rebound at some point in the future
4) I can get a job helping to clean up the oil, hence making up for lost income (either totally or in part) due to the oil spill, and can contribute to returning the area to normal and I can get back to the job I love

Now the compensation issue is another one alltogether, but there are certainly better ways to deal with that than offing yourself.

My guess is that the guy was likely predisposed to do something like this, and this was just the final straw.

Did BP/the oil spill contribute to his suicide? Sure.
Are they responsible for it? Probalby not, as contribute and responsible for are totally different things.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by puckluck

It's pretty obvious from reading the article and specifically these two paragraphs that the fisherman were not happy with the way they were being treated and how they were being compensated. They went from doing the thing they love to do the most in fishing and ended up helping with the cleanup in the Gulf.

Compensation as an contracted employee of BP for the cleanup and dealing with the claims made against BP for the economic damage done by the spill are two entirely separate concepts.

[HOZ]

Maybe if Mr. Fore in the Capital got of his Golf Cart faster and undid the red tape faster.....

Who knows...

[MrMastodonFarm]

haha, a political cartoon! Oh Hoz, you slay me.