While boating, Phil ignores warning signs that the weather is worsening. His boat is swamped. Quick Sea Rescue's recovery of Phil is slowed by an inexperienced crewman. Meanwhile Rita, who is also in a floundering craft awaiting rescue, is lost. In Rita's family's suit against Phil, his failure to heed the signs of the approaching storm will most likely be held
A) not the cause of Rita's loss.
B) the causation in fact, but not the proximate cause of Rita's loss.
C) the proximate cause of Rita's loss.
D) the superceding cause of Rita's loss.

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Phil's failure to heed the signs of the approaching storm was the cause in fact of Rita's loss, but not the proximate cause because the intervening negligence of the inexperienced crewman was the superseding cause of Rita's loss.

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