A sailor drank half a liter of rum because of a distressing phone call he received, and then started his shift as the sole officer in charge of the vessel. In his drunkenness, he became inattentive and let the 7,000 ton ship run aground the coast of Scotland at full speed. Thankfully no one was injured, except the ship, which had to be scrapped. Upon further investigation, it was revealed that the person in charge of the vessel had failed to enforce the no-alcohol rule aboard the ship. In fact, the ship had quite a large store of. The officer in charge when the incident occurred was fired, and the owner of the ship promised to implement stricter alcohol consumption policies with his future crew.
I find this event to be scary that that kind of carelessness can happen with something so dangerous. What if it had run aground in a densely populated area? And there were so many things that could've gone wrong, so many possible injuries that were miraculously avoided. It is events like these (of course not exactly like this but just recognizing the risks associated with over-consumption of alcohol) and also just the overwhelming drunkenness of the general populace that spurred on the temperance movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/23/europe/drunk-russian-sailor-crash-cargo-ship/index.html
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