If you consider having your boat hit by a whale's tale an "accident" then, yes. Actually, that doesn't kill them, just gets them all wet and useless for the next combat round.
I did finish this yesterday. And while I still recommend it, perhaps not quite as enthusiastically as before.
The last 25-30% of the game is a bit of a disappointment and it also has a design flaw that once discovered makes part of whaling counter productive. **Spoiler** When whaling you collect blubber and food. With a better ship you can turn some/most of the blubber to oil which is more profitable. When you have a full crew of 10 men for bigger ships their share for selling blubber & oil will eventually reduce the Capt's share to 0%. WTF? I'm sure the developers' idea was to make you balance crew quality against profits, but it doesn't end up working like that. It is the Capt's share that you use to buy a better ship and pay for provisions. The design flaw is that all proceeds received from the sale of food goes straight to the Capt's account. And the crew doesn't seem to care! So, why collect blubber? No reason, particularly since it takes up hold space. So, when whaling just add "food" to your hold space after whale kills. and leave the blubber for the scavengers. Of course you don't do this until regular whaling is no longer profitable, but a sharp eye will see you rewarded. Almost certainly when you get a ship with 10 crew capacity with high level skills.
Another weak point is money. I made money hand over fish whaling and could have upgraded ships even more quickly than I did. I only bought one mid-size ship and then pretty quickly bought the best the game has available. So, uh, what do I spend my money on now? Basically, nothing. Provisions are easily paid for by food "farming" and even the pay you receive for doing jobs.
Something I did not catch up on until the game was well in hand was cabin boys. They start at level 1 and are basically useless, except...they upgrade at a remarkable speed. My one cabin boy ended up with more HP than anyone else except my Capt and I didn't pick him up until well into the game. Other crew hardly upgrade at all so don't worry about them.
The game ends with a fight agains the BFG that is probably more frustrating than fun. I had to go to the community forums to see how to do it. I actually should have been able to figure it out on my own though.
So, yes. I still recommend the game as there is a lot of good things about it. Basically, up to a point it is a lot of fun. There are still some things left unexplained as a manual is not provided, at least not that I saw. I didn't look for one all that hard. It's not perfect, but I'm satisfied I got my money's worth. You will too.