are you seaman ? This kind of passe is not dangerous at all - There is deep water very close to the shore. Any navigation close to the shore just need that everybody on the wheelhouse do there job properly with preparation work on map - then GPS/radar/electronic maping navigation system but also checking men eyes alignement.
Your right xtitan, this a mistake of the whole bridge team and close passes are very common on ships due to navigational reasons, you would have a navigation officer monitering the position, the officer of the watch would be monitering position and there would be more than likely a jounior offericer of the watch aswell.
Um? You must be using a different definition of the word 'dangerous' to the one I am using. I mean 'having the potential to cause harm'. An OED definition is 'the condition of being exposed to the chance of evil, risk or peril'. Interestingly, they specifically illustrate the word thus:
Naut 'a submerged rock, or the like, causing danger to vessels.'.
1699 Hake
Coll. Voy. iii 29 ".. at three quarters ebb, you may see all the dangers going in....But I would not advise any man to go in until he has viewed the harbour at low water.."
I can find NO indication in the OED that the word has any implication of 'doing something wrong and out of the ordinary', which seems to be the meaning you are ascribing to it. On the contrary, the word is used to describe anticipated hazards which need to be allowed for, rather than avoided.
Various levels of danger are indeed a common and unavoidable feature of life. Occasionally, for instance, I cross a road. When I am doing something dangerous, I will usually take especial care, and monitor my position closely - exactly as you both expect the crew of a ship to do. That is why I said that "Such passes are dangerous - you would expect the company to lay down safety rules for them". I did NOT say "Such passes are dangerous - you would expect the company to forbid them". And I CERTAINLY did not say "Such passes are uncommon and cannot be achieved safely..", which seems to be your implication.
Of course, modern journalists and safety activists frequently try to suggest that any activity involving the slightest risk should be banned, and hence should be rare. But I hope that no one counts me amongst their number....