Capsized Boat 4 Rescued

[RGrew176]

Coast Guard rescue of 4 from a capsized boat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxIiN559Jms&feature=youtu.be

 

[jbcurt00]

Interesting damage, wonder what happened to shear a 15ft+ tear along the keel w fairly large pieces missing. Didnt seem like rough seas.....

Glad they were prepared w an epirb and flares. Couldnt get the flare to fire, expired?

Thanks to the Coast Guard for doing all that they do.

 

[Teamster]

A retired friend of mine is living and traveling on his yacht,..

One of his biggest concerns is striking a partiality submerged shipping container that fell off a cargo ship.

My guess is they hit something like that,..

 

[southkogs]

Cool vid with a lot of instructional points - those guys looked pretty prepared, and the rescue happened easily enough that the were filming the whole thing.

I noticed that cut too JB ... they nailed sumthin' good.

 

[Ike-110722]

With damage like that they must have hit something really solid at speed. Fortunately they were prepared. They had an EPIRB and a hand held VHF. As a retired Coast Guard I wish they were all that easy to rescue.

 

[RGrew176]

There is no doubt that preparing for the unthinkable can make a bad situation somewhat better. I also thank the Coast Guard for all they do.

 

[Ned L]

A good job all the way around.
Putting on a lift jacket usually includes using the straps though.
And to think, it is pretty regularly here that someone asks "do I really need this foam".....

 

[shrew]

There is a lot of weird debris out there. We saw an entire 2 pedestal desk floating upside down partially submerged in Long Island sound years ago. I hit something unseen in over well over 100 ft of water miles off on Montauk, NY. It was submerged enough that the only damage was a 1inch tear in an SS prop, and a sheared tooth on the top end of a Bravo 3 outdrive. Today we joke that we think we hit a sub. (subs are common in that area).

 

[JoLin]

3 years ago my friend was 20 miles off Montauk Point (that's in the Atlantic ocean, mind you) and hit a telephone pole at 20 mph. It was floating 90% submerged. Bent one shaft and both props. They managed to straighten one prop enough to get home at 5 mph. As Shrew noted, there's a lot of debris out there.

I saw that video a few days ago and was also impressed at how well prepared they were, and how everyone kept his cool. I think that flare must've gotten waterlogged somehow. I have a few around that are almost 30 years old and they still work when I occasionally light one off.

 

[shrew]

Telephone Poles and Trees happen. Another time we were sitting in Block Island Sound off of Fishers Island flounder fishing. Saw a dead dead floating (log or telephone floating vertically) it popped up out of nowhere, then bobbed underwater for about 2 minutes, then popped up again about 25 ft from where we first saw it, then bobbed under for several more minutes, then popped up again another 30 ft away again. When it popped up, you could only see about 10 inches of the top of the log/tree/pole.

We discussed whether we'd see something like that underway. Got so creeped out by it we moved a mile in the opposite direction to make sure we avoided it.

 

[rlb81]

A good job all the way around.
Putting on a lift jacket usually includes using the straps though.
And to think, it is pretty regularly here that someone asks "do I really need this foam".....

+1 on all points, especially the foam. That was my first thought while watching the video.