Man Overboard..!!!!

[scooper77515]

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Great stories, all!!!

Just an aside on cell phones...get them home, and pull out the batteries, and hit them with an air compressor. Then after that, hit them again with a warm hair dryer. Should be up to snuff after that, and in about 3 minutes.

I dumped my cousin's friend off my seadoo jet boat last summer. She was VERY upset. But only because she had dumped her beer. Didn't really care about the cell phone, which I revived when we got home.

My wife, on the other hand, would have swam home, and told me to sell the boat, if that had happened to her.

I sold that little thing and bought a decent sized boat for the rest of the year.

 

[greenbush future]

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Michigan lost its first father to drowning last weekend. 2 year old daughter was rescued, but the adult wasn?t wearing a life jacket and they found him 45 minutes later, dead from drowning. The water is only in the upper 30's here, it's very cold, and you wont last but a few minutes in those temps.

 

[Fjandy]

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Man I love the original post. Really makes me miss my trips down there. I can't say I've been in but my Uncle once went in trying to recover a tarpon rod he lost a handle on. He got the rod back so our captain was happy. Capt. never did install that swim ladder so my Uncle spent a bit of time just enjoying the water and laughing about his mishap. I curtly reminded him that we'd been catching 6' Black Tips here only minutes ago. Swim ladder not needed...he was 62 at the time and shot over the gunnel like a seal. I'm in the process of buying my own first boat so I'll check back in. Thanks for sharing a great story.

 

[Dzrtcj7]

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Went out last summer at the start of boating season on a friends boat. He was so proud of how great his freshly waxed bow looked. Later that day he hopped up there to tie off a boat that was joining us. Next thing I knew I looked up and he was doing the reverse running man on the edge of bow. Of course, over the side he went. He bobbed back up behind the boats, as the current was running pretty hard where we were anchored. We got a pretty good laugh out of that.

Growing up on boats there were lots of great stories of people going overboard. Fortunately, all ended with a laugh.