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Tennessee Boaters Killed By Tug and Barges
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On Jun 22, 9:29*pm, W1TEF wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:09:42 -0400, Wayne.B
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Tragic:
http://www.newschannel9.com/news/cre...-capsized.html
Even more so...
"None of the people in the fishing boat were wearing life jackets at
time of accident."
Sad.
It's not likely that a life jacket would have saved someone run over
by a bunch of barges and a tug. That's the problem I have with those
statistics, the "pro life jacket" people always want to assume that
wearing a life jacket would have saved the victim. And that is not
always the case. We don't wear life jackets while recreational
boating. I only ask people to wear one if they are very young or
can't swim. Wearing a life jacket is a situation by situation call.
It's hard to imagine tht these three guys could have all missed seeing
this bearing down on them. I can understand how the tug operator
might have missed seeing them.
I have been there and almost got run over.. How you can miss it? I don't
know it's huge but the one that crept up on my was like a big silent
planed slipping in in the night... No lights on the front of the barges,
it was crazy.
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