and

he went around, first of all, looking at the condition of the vessel, seeing if it's seaworthy.

Then he had to assess the crew, and he uses techniques like just being a regular guy with the crew and having a few beers and telling stories and trying to get a read for them and what their feeling was.

And The impression we got was that they were all on board.

They hadn't been paid in months.

And here we were coming and offering them to pay everything that they were owed and give them a plane ticket home.

And the master, the captain, was also on board with this plan up until a point.

Max is getting older, and it's easy to see him as a kind of relic of a different era.