'Wagging' talk and loose lips sink ships

The ship is now floating, but is very unstable because she still is leaking. Water still needs to be pumped out because some holes seem to be difficult to patch. Some planks also need to be replaced and construction done to make her more stable.
And the huge slack at the helm has been decided to be tightened so she starts going straight forward. The compass screams for severe recalibration and most old charts should be thrown overboard and replaced with up-to-date versions for a safe voyage in the future.
The crew is now fired, some probably going to jail for showing poor seamanship. Others ought to pay back money they gained due to the big slack at the helm. The ship is not seaworthy yet, but the refurbishing work is in full swing – also preparation for the new crew to come.
Then strange people from another country started arguing with the sweating rescue team, talking like they wanted the old crew reinstalled because they were certified – a crew who apparently accepted some people arguing with weapons on how to helm the ship, turning it into grave sea distress.
A little later – well timed – some self-proclaimed navigators living in New York popped up on world media assuming it’s about navigating a shipshape ship when what locals had seen was a rusty, barely floating wreck with a more or less seedy/shabby crew.
You do not argue with a rescue captain and his team who are in full struggle with keeping the water under the waterline. Most people aboard understand that and keep calm, but some dangerous people try to wag the boat – a risky act that the rescue captain hits hard on. The foreign visitors and the “Besserwissers” in New York are apparently supporting this dangerous “wagging” by their talk, by who they talk to – or at least, by just doing the talk.
A Johnsen
Chon Buri