The Titanic of technology projects?

I am beginning to think developers will do almost anything to get to the lifeboats escape our project. We’ve had 2 quit, not one but 2 have gone out on short term disability to have different surgeries, 1 is switching to a different technology group in our company and the best is that yesterday one used a truck to stop himself as he was rollerblading too fast and now may have a herniated disc. I tell him to be careful and wear protective gear but does he listen? no. He won’t wear protective gear because he doesn’t want to look like a geek (oh the irony! he is a developer and thus a geek by definition!). Deathwish boy. Anyway, none of this may sound that bad except for we only had 11 or 12 developers, so this is a fairly high % of defections. You had a higher % chance of getting off the Titanic alive than being a developer who makes it to the end of this project.