Coast guard has found missing boat, 1 of 4 missing boaters.

[dbk]

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[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: techs
I'm guessing those guys didn't spend much time in the pool in college.

Racist.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: dbk
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Ugg. Dehydration starting to really be a huge threat for them.

Remember folks - know where the life jackets are/wear them and stay with the boat.

 

[dbk]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: dbk
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Ugg. Dehydration starting to really be a huge threat for them.

Remember folks - know where the life jackets are/wear them and stay with the boat.

Well, the guy that the CG rescued on Monday said that the other guys did put their life jackets on. Could they still be floating around?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: dbk

Well, the guy that the CG rescued on Monday said that the other guys did put their life jackets on. Could they still be floating around?

Coast Guard said hypothermia why they're calling it off. Even in 80 degree water you're going to lose core temperature.

"Coast Guard officials had indicated earlier today they were highly concerned that the three missing boaters had suffered the effects of hypothermia after being in the water for so long."

http://views.washingtonpost.co...tml?hpid=moreheadlines

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: spidey07
Hopefully they had jackets on. If not then it won't end well. 15 foot seas spells major trouble for a boat that size.

probably not or they would have found them with the boat...

If you have jackets you still don't stand still in open seas unless the water is smooth as glass.

When you are just floating in the water, you're probably going to drift a lot from your original location. Even if you aren't actively trying to find random land, you probably won't stay in the original location, especially if its a very small group of passengers and the boat isn't there anymore.

But it definitely sounds like no one had jackets on. Most people on a boat rarely keep the jackets on, if they even ever put them on from the moment they stepped on the boat... and if a freak accident happens, there may be no time or no chance to recover the jackets from where they were stowed.

 

[purbeast0]

this sucks

i cant believe they scoured 24k square miles and didn't find them, that is crazy.

i would like to hear more from the guy who they round and see what he has to say. i am curious if he remembers or saw how the others left the boat.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
this sucks

i cant believe they scoured 24k square miles and didn't find them, that is crazy.

i would like to hear more from the guy who they round and see what he has to say. i am curious if he remembers or saw how the others left the boat.

Check my link. They couldn't hold on any longer. I don't know if you've ever been in a decent current but it can be VERY strong. Once they were separated from the boat they were unlikely to catch up to it.

I know it's dumb to reference a movie but "Cast Away" played it pretty well. At full swim in scuba I couldn't catch a drifting boat - and that's at full strength (fresh body), strong swimmer, with flotation and fins. Even if I dumped everything I wasn't going to catch that boat drifting.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: spidey07
Hopefully they had jackets on. If not then it won't end well. 15 foot seas spells major trouble for a boat that size.

probably not or they would have found them with the boat...

If you have jackets you still don't stand still in open seas unless the water is smooth as glass.

When you are just floating in the water, you're probably going to drift a lot from your original location. Even if you aren't actively trying to find random land, you probably won't stay in the original location, especially if its a very small group of passengers and the boat isn't there anymore.

But it definitely sounds like no one had jackets on. Most people on a boat rarely keep the jackets on, if they even ever put them on from the moment they stepped on the boat... and if a freak accident happens, there may be no time or no chance to recover the jackets from where they were stowed.

ESPN reported this evening:
they initially didnt have jackets on. After the boat flipped, they all swam under it and retrieved vests and put them on. They were togehter clinging to the boat until 2am sunday morning, when they were seperated.

they did find an empty life jacket about 16 miles away from the boat.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Anyone know how much locator beacons cost for life jackets?

 

[UberNeuman]

Horatio Crane arrives on the scene.....

/yeah, i know
//i'm going to hell....

 

[Rudee]

Black people and water do not go well together.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: spidey07
Hopefully they had jackets on. If not then it won't end well. 15 foot seas spells major trouble for a boat that size.

probably not or they would have found them with the boat...

If you have jackets you still don't stand still in open seas unless the water is smooth as glass.

When you are just floating in the water, you're probably going to drift a lot from your original location. Even if you aren't actively trying to find random land, you probably won't stay in the original location, especially if its a very small group of passengers and the boat isn't there anymore.

But it definitely sounds like no one had jackets on. Most people on a boat rarely keep the jackets on, if they even ever put them on from the moment they stepped on the boat... and if a freak accident happens, there may be no time or no chance to recover the jackets from where they were stowed.

I meant they would have held on to each other + boat. But if the wave kept up, yeah they would probably drift.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: sdifox

I meant they would have held on to each other + boat. But if the wave kept up, yeah they would probably drift.

Sad really. 15 foot seas are really brutal. I don't care how strong you are they are going to wear you out.

Tragic accident. But maybe some over confidence was involved because a mayday wasn't sent out.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: sdifox

I meant they would have held on to each other + boat. But if the wave kept up, yeah they would probably drift.

Sad really. 15 foot seas are really brutal. I don't care how strong you are they are going to wear you out.

Tragic accident. But maybe some over confidence was involved because a mayday wasn't sent out.

once the radio goes in the water... a mayday might be a difficult thing to do.
what is unfortunate is, the guy said that some time early on during the search, a helicopter shown a light only few yards away from their boat... a mere few yards from being rescued...

if only they had a way to signal that chopper.

 

[moshquerade]

Update:

REPORT: THE THREE MISSING BOATERS TOOK OFF THEIR LIFE VESTS
Posted by Mike Florio on March 4, 2009, 1:28 p.m. EST

Rarely if ever do I struggle to start writing one of these items. But I?ve spent the past several minutes at a complete loss for words.

Apparently, Nick Schuyler has informed authorities that each of the other three men who were on the 21-foot fishing boat that capsized off the Gulf Coast of Florida voluntarily removed their life jackets.

Within two to four hours after the boat flipped, one of the two NFL players, Marquis Cooper of the Raiders and Corey Smith of the Lions, removed his life jacket and allowed himself to drift out to sea.

Then, a few hours later, the other NFL player did the same.

Finally, on Monday morning, Bleakley thought he saw a light in the distance. So he removed his life jacket and swam to it in an effort to get help.

?I think he was delusional to think he could swim someplace,? Bob Bleakley said.

This news makes the tragedy even more horrific. If they only had stayed together on the hull of the boat, they all would have been saved.

But the psychological burdens of such circumstances are surely very heavy, and reality like becomes twisted and distorted very quickly.

So, again, pray for the families of the men who were lost. But also pray for Nick Schuyler, who will carry the guilt that goes along with being the only survivor of the tragedy, and that goes along with the fact he wasn?t able to convince three of his friends to refuse to surrender.

http://www.profootballtalk.com...-off-their-life-vests/