On 23/06/2010 9:23 AM, W1TEF wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:21:24 -0700 (PDT), jamesgangnc
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:29 pm, wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:09:42 -0400, Wayne.B

wrote:
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.

Well, I do. When underway, you wear one - my boat, my rules. :)

Agreed. I even verse it before the ride.

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.

It isn't a question of if the tow operator saw them - he couldn't have
stopped in time anyway. Like I said elsewhere, if they were fishing
on a river bend, they might not have known the tow was there until it
was too late.

Unfortunately, we can guess all we want - not enough information from
the news reports.

Yep.

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The bigger government gets, the more it tends to rule out common sense.