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It's a magnificent story of what human mental will power can drive the human body to accomplish. He also had a lot of things out of his control going his way to make the entire event possible, and if it's colder waters he's a dead man.
I really believe that being out that far on a trip like that alone, isn't really that dangerous if you're in a high traffic area, and in constant communications and have some experience and knowledge under your belt. It's like flying solo in a plane. Sooner or later, you been driving a boat long enough, you're going to do it alone. He had a course plotted and destination that was known to others and an ETA.
His mistake that he lived to talk about was to decide to go fishing alone, apparently for something big enough to pull him off a rocking boat, and doing it without a PFD and without telling anybody. No way to know for sure, but if he's careful enough to have a PFD on while fishing alone, he's probably smart enough and careful enough, to check in with somebody and tell him he's fishing alone, and have radio check points on course. So when he goes in the drink, it's not a long time before somebody reports him missing and last contact location, and then he gets picked up and nobody ever hears about it.
I don't recall the specifics of the story, but I recall some other NFL players getting lost at sea not too long ago on a fishing trip gone wrong. Rogue wave or something flipped the boat. The guy that lived is the one that kept his head together and stayed hanging on to whatever was still floating from the hull of the boat, the others cracked and were lost at sea. Colder waters I think, when that happened, in cold water without proper gear, the only chance you have is to keep as much as your body out of the water as you can.
Oh well, nice story, and lucky it was warm and calm South Florida waters.
I really believe that being out that far on a trip like that alone, isn't really that dangerous if you're in a high traffic area, and in constant communications and have some experience and knowledge under your belt. It's like flying solo in a plane. Sooner or later, you been driving a boat long enough, you're going to do it alone. He had a course plotted and destination that was known to others and an ETA.
His mistake that he lived to talk about was to decide to go fishing alone, apparently for something big enough to pull him off a rocking boat, and doing it without a PFD and without telling anybody. No way to know for sure, but if he's careful enough to have a PFD on while fishing alone, he's probably smart enough and careful enough, to check in with somebody and tell him he's fishing alone, and have radio check points on course. So when he goes in the drink, it's not a long time before somebody reports him missing and last contact location, and then he gets picked up and nobody ever hears about it.
I don't recall the specifics of the story, but I recall some other NFL players getting lost at sea not too long ago on a fishing trip gone wrong. Rogue wave or something flipped the boat. The guy that lived is the one that kept his head together and stayed hanging on to whatever was still floating from the hull of the boat, the others cracked and were lost at sea. Colder waters I think, when that happened, in cold water without proper gear, the only chance you have is to keep as much as your body out of the water as you can.
Oh well, nice story, and lucky it was warm and calm South Florida waters.
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