>What regulations of this committee do you think saved lives that other agencies did not?
I did not argue for this specific committee. I replied to your incorrect, uninformed assertions.
> I think fisherman know how to be safe
You have obviously not worked with commercial fishermen. Maybe you have never worked with any complicated industrial process. Safety regulations do not propagate by osmosis. It requires an agency verifying them.
> without bureaucrats in DC that have never been in a fishing boat butting in.
In my experience, the USCG inspectors who execute inspections and inform regulations served on boats. You are making an armchair assumption about how the process works.
> You just need coast guard for emergencies.
This is also ridiculously incorrect. USCG safety inspections have prevented many emergencies.
> They got along just fine before 2018 when this committee was created.
2018 is when we started implementing 46 CFR Subchapter M, which adds many overdue safety improvements and still does not bring us up to the standards of more developed flags.
> But yeah, maybe we should add 20 more agencies just to be safe...
This is strawman nonsense. I get frustrated with regulation as much as anyone. I had to allocate capital to upgrades to be compliant with regulation. I have opinions about which regulations were important and necessary and which were not. Those who want to burn it all down have no real world experience in this domain.
I did not argue for this specific committee. I replied to your incorrect, uninformed assertions.
> I think fisherman know how to be safe
You have obviously not worked with commercial fishermen. Maybe you have never worked with any complicated industrial process. Safety regulations do not propagate by osmosis. It requires an agency verifying them.
> without bureaucrats in DC that have never been in a fishing boat butting in.
In my experience, the USCG inspectors who execute inspections and inform regulations served on boats. You are making an armchair assumption about how the process works.
> You just need coast guard for emergencies.
This is also ridiculously incorrect. USCG safety inspections have prevented many emergencies.
> They got along just fine before 2018 when this committee was created.
2018 is when we started implementing 46 CFR Subchapter M, which adds many overdue safety improvements and still does not bring us up to the standards of more developed flags.
> But yeah, maybe we should add 20 more agencies just to be safe...
This is strawman nonsense. I get frustrated with regulation as much as anyone. I had to allocate capital to upgrades to be compliant with regulation. I have opinions about which regulations were important and necessary and which were not. Those who want to burn it all down have no real world experience in this domain.