To be fair, sounds like better accommodations than a sizeable part of the world endures.Dad and three teenage live-aboards on a 29ft boat? Somebody had a history of poor judgment (and it was not the kids).
Very sad ending.
To be fair, sounds like better accommodations than a sizeable part of the world endures.Dad and three teenage live-aboards on a 29ft boat? Somebody had a history of poor judgment (and it was not the kids).
We're not the rest of the world, we're supposed to be an example to the rest of the world. Keeping those kids in those kinds of conditions should have cost that father custody.To be fair, sounds like better accommodations than a sizeable part of the world endures.
We don't know what the family's situation was.Keeping those kids in those kinds of conditions should have cost that father custody.
This is the most detailed discussion of all the posts I've seen on different boating forums:because we don't have any good info about the boat
I will hold my comments & thoughts other than this..Guys,
I was REALLY angry at first so, I did not post a reply.
I then read what you guys posted & decided to add my own take on this.
I sail out of the Tampa Bay area & consider the Gulf, as MY backyard.
Along with this NEEDLESS LOSS OF LIFE, from what I have read in the debris field discovered,
there were at least 5 lifejackets floating........WTF really?
When the last communication spoke of 6 foot seas & deteriorating conditions, is this not the time to have all aboard wearing life jackets NOW & more importantly...........BEFOREHAND?
Add to this, in the past two weeks, three other people have died in MY backyard.
These could of all been avoided sans the STUPIDITY!
Making the trip south out of Sarasota, one need only be 2-3 miles offshore for most of the trip.
Three teenage children are now lost for what I cannot fathom why. They were most likely not
wearing lifejackets in reported dangerous conditions for a 27 footer.
So, you need ask yourself, "Could this have been avoided"? I would think so. The water temp is 80°+/- so, exposure should not have played a cause. Where was his LL position, I do not know. There was however, a late season cold front moving in on Sunday but in my area 40 miles North, the winds would not have created the seas he reported. He may have been caught in a local moving band/squall & down here in Florida sometimes, winds can get up to 50 MPH for some time, mostly short-lived.
I am angry, because in the last two weeks, a total of 8 people were lost because safety steps had NOT been implemented beforehand. I now feel for the families & their lose. Children should NEVER DIE & not,
in my backyard.
We can & should DO BETTER! I hate Darwin Award winners.
Just my take on this guys.........
CR
Except that he (the skipper) chose to leave when reports of severe weather WERE forecast.Many things not known yet. Not everything at sea is preventable, or survivable.
Well that would then align in the "preventable" slot.Except that he (the skipper) chose to leave when reports of severe weather WERE forecast.