Lifeboat Decision

The Case of The Overcrowded Lifeboat was about a 40 foot yacht sailing from Long Island to Hawaii with forty passengers, along with the captain and his crew. Everything was going well in the beginning until there was a severe storm that caused the yacht to hit an iceberg, killing the captain and the majority of the passengers on board. The remainder of the passengers and crew were in the lifeboat searching for the rest of the survivors. As they found the passengers floating in the water, the first mate had to make a decision of who was going to be saved from the freezing water. The first mate refused the five passengers from entering into the lifeboat and they unfortunately passed away, among the five passengers was a woman who three months pregnant. She must have been a young woman on that yacht when it sunk into the sea. After rowing in the frezzing sea for three days, they were discovered by a commercial fishing boat and returned safely to shore. When the Coast Guard looked came along to find out what happened, they took the first mate and the two surviving crew members into custody for the murders of the passengers who died in the freezing water. The first mate and the two crew members who were on the lifeboats who could of save those five people were charged with six counts of murder.