Jasper Winn > Quotes

“It occurs to me that if the brief century of air travel had produced as many disasters, deaths and capital losses as any hundred years of maritime transport, then flying would have fallen out of favour long ago. The wreck of the Sea Horse, alone, in 1816, had meant 360 drowned. The explosion of the Hindenburg Zeppelin had killed a mere 35 of the 97 people on board, yet that one incident had brought an end to all serious development of airship travel. But we have been seafarers as a species for far longer than almost any other human activity and we’re somehow accepting of the risks.”
― Jasper Winn, Paddle: A long way around Ireland