Carelessness and inattention is most likely the cause of someone to fall overboard.
Inattention - carelessness - intoxication are all reasons why a person could fall overboard.
standing up on a boat
Someone standing up while the boat is manoeuvring.
Inattention - carelessness - intoxication are all reasons why a person could fall overboard.
Alcohol consumption.
Most likely, someone was running, jumping, or otherwise jostling the stove - which can cause a cake to fall.
It is if all the proper precautions are taken.
Easy one: The best possible method to prevent drowning from a fall overboard or capsizing is to HAVE ONES LIFE VEST ON. So simple - and so relatively few people do it.
It's a boating phrase. Overboard means to go over the board, which is part of the boat. If you go overboard on a boat, you fall out into the water. As an idiom, it has come to mean doing so much that it seems excessive.
Pip jumps out of the whaleboat in Chapter 93.
A leak around the release screw most likely culprit.