Waddle salutes as he and his wife, Jill, arrive at the court of inquiry into the Greenevile collision in March.

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It was a bittersweet departure filled, as it has been for months, with personal reflection.

The routine that day at sea had become hurried, the events rushed. The former captain has turned them over and over in his mind, found half a dozen scenarios that would have turned the disaster into a near-miss.

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