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.

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

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:29:00 -0400, W1TEF
wrote:

"None of the people in the fishing boat were wearing life jackets at
time of accident."

The kind of barges we see in Iowa are one hundred feet by four
hundred. A standard tow is four wide and three long. At ten feet per
second it would take two minutes for the tow to complete the job of
running you down. You would be anxious for air long before the end of
it. Then you go through a screw on the pushboat.

Casady