I learned that for an overboard, the person who spots the victim does not take his eyes off them, even for a moment. It doesn't matter if you are the captain, navigator, whatever. Because a ship is so low in the water, and the swells change the perspective so quickly, that if you look away, there is a good chance you will never find them again.
It just sounds like a great sermon illustration for something, doesn't it?
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It was the same in lifeguard training back in the middle of the last century. There was even a proper way to enter the water at a run without ever taking eyes off the future victim.
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