Well, file this one under the heading of "why you need to recheck your figures more than once" department. When you make a balls up this big, generally , its a bad day. Could be worse, in the bad old days they would have just shot him and moved on to the next in command
I suppose for the complete trifecta of fail, he could have brought the whole thing down on top of the ship, which then would capsize and sink...
