Key legal question
Whether the respondent's conduct had adequate causal link to the victim's death despite the victim being seated on the bow.
Extracted holding
The respondent's speeding and failure to avoid the priority vessel were adequately causal; the victim's position was not an extraordinary intervening cause.
Extracted reasoning
Night navigation in limited visibility made a collision with a smaller boat foreseeable, and a passenger sitting on the bow was not so exceptional or unforeseeable as to break causation.