Ghosts of Things Past

I'd give this episode two more stars if the producers hadn't expected me to believe something that was obviously false. To whit, the ship and crew pick up a man who was blown off a sailboat in a storm. The sea is now as calm as a bathtub. A diver has to be put overboard to check the screws for damage, and the chief engineer says the sea is too rough, so they need to visit Bright Island where the water will be calm enough to dive. They then travel ten miles to Bright Island, which has no harbor, and wait about a mile off shore, where the sea state is just as it was before the side trip. The exercise was obviously an excuse to get the ship to Bright Island to advance a story arc that began in the first episode.

I appreciate that it was necessary to get the ship back to Bright Island to continue that story arc, but this was a lousy way to do it. Did the producers think viewers are dumb? Or did they just not care?