NFL boaters accident report...........

[Audiofn]

I had to leave an ancore behind once when the coasties had to come and get me when I had an electrical problem on a budies boat. I tied a bouy to it and got it the next day. The funny thing is I knew more about how to run the recue then most of the coasties. They were all fighting over how to do it and after they smashed into the boat three times HARD I said ok now we do it my way.

 

[cuda]

Sad story. How deep of water were they in?

If they were 50 miles out, it would be about 130 feet there. I doubt they would have anchored that deep.

I've been boating my whole life, dad was a lifer in the Navy. I remember dad telling me to never tie a line off, when trying to pull something. He said to take a turn around a cleat, then hold the line, in case you had to let go immediately. My brother was on a nuclear subtender (the Holland), and someone had tied it off, I don't remember the details, but a nine inch hawser snapped, and took both legs off a sailor.

I left an anchor out in that area, when it got stuck on a wreck. I tried pulling it BOW FIRST, but after I pulled in all directions, I cut the anchor line. You can always buy another anchor, you can't buy another life.

It was just a matter of inexperience. All the classes in the world will not replace real life experience, or real death for that matter.

 

[Sea-Dated]

I had had to leave an anchor behind also. Much easier and cheaper that risking your life or doing severe damage to yourself or your boat.....

 

[MarylandMark]

Last Summer a storm rolled up on me and 5-6 other boats.

I had to cut the anchor/chain/rope, replace the front hatch from anchor guy falling through it, etc. $2K day...

Honestly I didn't want to leave it on the bottom and didn't know what to do- made a game time decision which ended up being the right one.

2 boats tried to save their anchors end up on the beach when their anchors let go and were pushed ashore. 1 guy jumped in to try to unhook the anchor of another boat. 5'-6' deep water was now 10 foot deep. He started to say he needed help, wave soaked him and under he went. Another friend jumped in to get him; if not I have no doubt he wouldn't have surfaced..

 

[Ms PatriYacht]

very sad reading this, most of you guys seemed to have grown up boating and learned a lot from your Dad, that kind of experience is priceless. I don't believe that was the case here, I either read or heard this on one of the interviews with Coopers father, he said his son loved fishing more than just about anything and that he went out with him only one time, but he was to afraid to ever go again. I think Cooper probably only used the boat as a vehicle to fish off and probably did not know a ton about operating it. With his money if he cared about boating he probably would have had a larger one. Kind of like me with a car, I have no clue about how it runs and could care less, I just use it to get places. Hearing how they took off their life jackets and just drifted away makes me think of the scene at the end of movie Titanic with all the life jackets floating empty and the few survivors just watching silently and helpless. What a horrible memory for the loan survivor to be left with, I hope one day he can close his eyes without reliving it.