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A single missed fit-for-duty check turned a $9,000 fine into a $180,000 liability. A Story Worth Sitting With A skipper turned up to work, took a vessel out, and had an accident. He was tested afterwards and failed a drug and alcohol test. He was fined $9,000. His company was fined $180,000. Not because the company had done the drinking. Not because they'd directly caused the accident. They were fined twenty times more than the man at the wheel because they had no process in