is not a good idea.
My daughter lives in Savannah and sent me an article about these guys pulling into a rather large marina in the intercoastal in a smallish 20 foot or so bay boat.
One of the guys decides he is going to jump from the boat to the dock to facilitate tying up the boat.
Now the tide here is a rip snorter - you can drop a bouy in and in ten minutes it'll be out of site; not to mention the water's muddy as heck. Add that to the fact that when he jumped the dock was about 10 feet away and he was wearing no life jacket.
Still possibly recoverable except he hit his head on the dock, and went under. (about 30 feet deep or so). They found him 2 days later wrapped around one of the pilings at the bottom. Divers could only search during slack tide and had to go by feel due to the muddiness of the water.
My daughter lives in Savannah and sent me an article about these guys pulling into a rather large marina in the intercoastal in a smallish 20 foot or so bay boat.
One of the guys decides he is going to jump from the boat to the dock to facilitate tying up the boat.
Now the tide here is a rip snorter - you can drop a bouy in and in ten minutes it'll be out of site; not to mention the water's muddy as heck. Add that to the fact that when he jumped the dock was about 10 feet away and he was wearing no life jacket.
Still possibly recoverable except he hit his head on the dock, and went under. (about 30 feet deep or so). They found him 2 days later wrapped around one of the pilings at the bottom. Divers could only search during slack tide and had to go by feel due to the muddiness of the water.