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Hot take: Since I've seen this article posted a ton lately...
Facts:
Be pissed at Zuck for all the right reasons. This isn't one of them. The captain was just doing his job.
There is a particular frequency that distress calls go out on, you are required by maritime law to always be tuned into that channel. So to claim that you are innocent because you weren't tuned to the channel is like claiming that police didn't respond to a 999 call because the operator was using the line to talk to their friends. They are still basically admitting to breaking the law.
Should they were not tuned into a illegally mandated frequency for a good while then. They still have questions to answer.
The fact that the vessel wasn't in immediate danger is irrelevant because they had no way to know that because they weren't listening to the distress frequency.
Did they call out on 16? The article I read implied (but admittedly didn't outright state) they didn't make a distress call and just called for general assistance, and they called the Coast Guard on 22A, then the Coast Guard issued an assistance request for them on . Which would mean that Zuck's crew didn't do anything illegal and was just skuzzy, as should be expected of anything connected to him. Still means they were either lying about/poorly keeping watch on 16 as the Coast Guard should have broadcast on it.