I have to blame the game(s) for that.
I'm an RNLI branch member but from one of the many inland fundraising branches. Consequently the only water we get are puddle when it rains. Trying some crazy weather in Ship Simulator 2008 (the only other big non fighting boat sim) and realising how difficult it was to manouvre made me think that if I get stuck or sink or capsize then one just presses the reset and start the "mission" again but those guys and gals in real life don't have that option and go out in the kinda crap I set up in the game, sometimes paying the ultimate price.
Steve C