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Tennessee Boaters Killed By Tug and Barges
"Harry" wrote in message m... On 6/23/10 8:21 AM, 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. 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. According to the news story, the tug was pushing nine barges. What size barges, I don't know, but that far back, it is unlikely the barge operator could see anything in front of him, and, if he could see the small boat, it isn't likely he could have stopped in time or even changed the direction of that train of barges significantly. Perhaps operators of pusher barge trains should be required to post a forward lookout on the bow of the most forward barge. Or at least a camera. |
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