They're at risk too. Lives have been lost in that situation also.
So there are greater dangers, but sometimes, as I put it in my report, night flights are an imperative. When night flights are an imperative, in my view they shouldn't be scheduled. Rather, a committee, or a group of qualified people, such as a pilot, a weather person, and a sea-state person, should make not a generalized decision but the decision of “Is it safe to fly tonight?”
If I myself, for instance, were on an installation on a clear night, with calm seas, no fog around, and moonlit, and somebody said to me, “Mr. Wells, if you want to get home, there's a seat for you”, I would probably say, yes, okay, I'll go.
But if there was fog, or the sea was particularly stormy, the winds were high, and situations were difficult, I would probably say no.