[agrajag]

You’d be surprised at how much you can fuck up a ship as a CO without life-changing consequences. Unless there’s gross negligence a CO is almost certainly not even going to get discharged even if their actions lead to death of a sailor.

They’ll stop being CO and will never be promoted, but will finish out their Navy career in a job where they can’t hurt anyone, and will have almost no impact once they retire and go into civilian life.

They’re not going to do time in the brig unless there’s willful misconduct.

[sixstringtheory]

I believe you, but still I'd wager a CO has a higher probability of death than Elon Musk due to the conditions of their work.

I looked it up and found this at https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading...:

> Commander A. L. Wilderman, CO of USS Plunger (SSN-595), lost overboard in a storm just off San Francisco. 2 December 1973.

Who is the last software CEO that died in the course of their duty specifically due to the nature of their work?

[kortilla]

A commander doesn’t have to go overboard due to the nature of their work. That’s no different than a CEO who happened to have a heart attack while being CEO.

Lookup James Po Ho Cheung or Sid Agrawal if you want examples of CEOs straight up murdered for their roles.