This seems to be a perfect example of how situations turn into disasters. It's a series of events and decisions, all of which are reasonable at the time but when added together turn into a disaster. A bunch of C- decisions add up to an F situation.

I'm sure each decision by the captain made sense at the time. May not have been the best, but was defensible. And when weather conditions required that he have power to his vessel, the engines go. When he needed perfect conditions on his ship, he didn't have them. And then he was at the mercy of the storm.

Reminds me of a bug attempting to elude a spider. Bug enters the web, spider waits. Bug gets stuck, spider strikes. Everything the bug did made sense to him and getting stuck fouled things up.