For starters, I'm not a fan of connecting the rope to my harness from a safety standpoint.
I once talked a writer into including a scene where a sailor was being drowned slowly and horribly because the monster attached the sailors harness to a righting bar. It was a proposed low budget horror movie. It was so low budget they wanted to borrow catamarans and sailors. The scene didn't make it through editing and they never found anyone to back the movie.
It would have been a great clip to show all new sailors.