The Arabic

(after making the foregoing statement). Fault is charged in the navigation of the Arabic because the course she sailed brought her into shoal waters in the face of an approaching storm. Hindsight must not influence decision. The question is whether danger could and should have been foreseen and avoided in the exercise of due care. Under ordinary conditions, and even in very stormy weather, it was not bad seamanship for the Arabic to proceed as she did, close to Nantucket Shoals. On the other hand, for a ship so large to run ' into a cyclone in such waters, when the storm’s approach was known…