Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
When a ship is working perfectly and is operated by a hand-picked crew of highly trained men in perfect condition, how often is it wrecked by a series of silly errors happening ACCIDENTAL DEATH The "I'll sign off with two thoughts, one depressing and one cheering. A single Chingsi wrecked our ship and BY PETER BAILY is the one you don't know is loaded. Illustrated by Schoenherr The most "On the other hand, a talent that probability? developed it can't be surefire. The tale." the north face of Mount Everest. there was a click and a strange human voice. the northwest, blind success. It's well on the cards that I'm all in one piece and not broken one after another in defiance of well use it. That way even if I'm not You probably know we're back and wonder what went wrong. Who wouldn't be shocked after luck like that? Whale . Sure I'm a good astronomer but so are lots of other guys. If I were ten years older, it would have been an honor, being picked for the first long age it was luck. "You'll want to know if the ship bomb. We got lined up between Earth and Mars, you'll remember, and James pushed the button marked 'Jump'. Took his finger off the button and there we were: Alpha Centauri . never anything wrong with the Whale till right at the end and even then I doubt if it was the ship itself that fouled things up. "That was some survey assignment. who I was. Matt Hennessy, from Farside just back from a proving flight cum astronomical survey in the starship Whale . Whoever you are who finds this tape, you're made. Take it to "Where had I got to? I'd told you how we happened to find Chang, hadn't I? That's what the natives called at fifteen p.s.i. The odds people. Look more like cats than people, but they're people all right. in four weeks. When I say they, I mean a ten-man team of them. had aboard the Whale . "Three, they've a great sense of humor. Ran rather to silly practical jokes, but still. Can't say I care for that hot-foot and belly-laugh stuff myself, but tastes differ. "Four, the ten-man language team English, drink beer, like jokes and beat me at chess or table-tennis are look like tigers in trousers. weren't so hot at it. Maybe that ten per cent extra gravity put us off our strokes. As for chess, Svendlov was our champion. He won sometimes. The rest of us seemed to chess. Of course it's a screwy situation, playing chess with something that grows its own fur coat, has yellow eyes an inch and a half long you "And don't think I fell victim to their feline charm. The children were the adults on their big grinning heads. Personally I didn't like the one I knew best. He was called—well, we called him Charley, and he was the ethnologist, ambassador, contact man, or whatever you like to call him, who came back with us. Why I disliked him was because he was always trying to get the edge on you. All the time he had to be top. Great sense of humor, of course. I nearly broke my neck on that butter-slide he fixed up in the metal alleyway to the Whale's engine room. Charley laughed fit to bust, everyone laughed, I Yes, life and soul of the party, old Charley ... "My last sight of the was the sweetish stink of burned flesh and the choking reek of scorching insulation, the boat jolting and shuddering and beginning to break up, unhurt, was Charley. He was laughing ... "My God, it's dark out here. Wonder how high I am. Must be all of suppose same as escape "It's getting lighter. Look at those I expected though. Almost seem to be and tell the world hello. Hello, earth ... hello, again ... and good-by ... or eraser. What must have happened is that the suit ran out of "Come to think of it, why not up. us between the orbits of Earth and Mars. Instead of which, when James took his finger off the button, the mass-detector showed nothing except the noise-level of the universe. our exact position relative to the solar system. The crew had to find out exactly what went wrong. The the ship for a star-jump, you merely told it where you were and in the galaxy. Then you cut a tape on Nothing was wrong with the the wrong place. It hurts me to tell you this and I'm just attached personnel with no space-flight tradition. In practical terms, one highly trained equally skilled had failed to notice this when reading back. A childish Incredible, but that's what the next lot of measurements. That's would help to determine hydrogen worth. We were all praying that this all looking forward to seeing Earth again after four months subjective time away, except for Charley, who was still chuckling and shaking his head, and Captain James who was glaring at Charley and obviously wishing human dignity permitted him to tear Charley limb from limb. Then James pressed the button. "Everything twanged like a bowstring. I felt myself turned inside out, Something was wrong all right, and miles an hour. was the Whale , the most powerful ship ever built, which could cover fifty light-years in a subjective time For, as of course you know, the "The Whale also had ion rockets of course, the standard deuterium-fusion As again you know, this is good for our situation it was no good because it has rather a low thrust. It would have taken more time than we had to We had five minutes to abandon ship. "James got us all into the Minnow at a dead run. There was no time to was meant Whale hit the Pacific. Six hundred tons of mass at well over two thousand miles an hour make an almighty splash. By now you'll have divers down, but I doubt they'll salvage much you can use. "I wonder why James went down with the ship, as the saying is? Not that it made any difference. It must have broken his heart to know that his lovely ship was getting the chopper. Or did he suspect another human error? how he'd escaped—and I saw him beginning to laugh. Then glowing red against a purplish black I'm dead so I can't stand up." my suit but couldn't understand a word. Not English, not French, and anyone with my five milliwatt suit transmitter but I'll keep trying. The first is how I got here. I've remembered human body falling through air is foot fall, true, but I've been lucky. The suit is bulky but light and probably up in a drift. The suit is part worn but still operational. I'm fine. "The second thing I want to say is watch out for them. Those jokers are dangerous. I'm not telling how because I've got a scientific reputation to watch. You'll have to figure it out for yourselves. Here are the clues: after all they aren't human. On an alien world a hundred light-years talents develop? A talent that's here that most people don't believe it, might be highly developed (2) The Whale expedition did fine till it found Chang. Then it hit on till it looks fishy. We lost the ship, we lost the launch, all but one of us lost our lives. We couldn't even win a game of "So what is luck, good or bad? Scientifically speaking, future chance events are by definition chance. They luck. It's a fancy name for a lot of way. But the gambler defines it differently. For him, luck refers to the knows that some people are lucky and others aren't. All we've got are hints and glimmers, the fumbling touch of a rudimentary talent. There's the evil eye legend and the Jonah, bad luck bringers. Superstition? Maybe but accident prones. What's in a name? Call him accident prone and "All the same, search the space-flight records, talk to the actuaries.

<question>:
Who is James?

<options>:
A James is the captain of the Minnow.
B James is the ship's navigator.
C James is the ship's doctor.
D James is the captain of the Whale.

<answer>:

D