Missing boaters...one found...

[Roy Munson.sixpack]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/02/florida.missing.boaters/index.html

Doesnt sound good for the other 3, but i hope they find them, alive...

 

[Roy Munson.sixpack]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/02/florida.missing.boaters/index.html

Doesnt sound good for the other 3, but i hope they find them, alive...

 

[PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA]

He pretty much said that it doesn't make sense that out of 4 "big, in shape, strong, healthy men" only 1 could hold on.

Damn.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

in rough seas.

 

[futaba.79]

to even make it back to the boat in high seas and that's assuming they were wearing life jackets.

 

[fishwater99]

Guy still had a flip flop on one foot while treading water....
Anyone think Drugs and foul-play involved.. Deal gone wrong on the High Seas..

 

[Xenomorph]

...That's my only real problem with Fox News (and I'm not trying to start a liberal/conservative debate, here). They'll try to sensationalize everything possible. .....But to obviously hope for the addition of foul play in that situation is ridiculous.

"You don't find it ODD that out of 4 big, tough guys.. only ONE was able to hang on? Nothing odd there to you??"

Yeah, pal.. I find it odd that ANY of them could hang on.

And then later talking to a Coastie: "Why is it at 2am that one man stayed with the boat and 3 others, not sure why they decided to, but got separated from the boat?"

Again.. yeah, pal. People voluntarily CHOOSE to let go of a floating object in the middle of the night in 15ft seas.

What a douche.

 

[bonedaddy401]

Three guys might be dead and you try and say it was a drug deal gone bad? Pathetic.

 

[Xenomorph]

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[Xenomorph]

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[cowbell9]

..that they are. Tragic ****. Other athletes are out flashing bling, beating up wives and shooting themselves. these dudes were just fishin' and this happens. shame.

 

[bonedaddy401]

That is just damn ridiculous. I hope someone else in the national media call that person out.</p>

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

and if they are in life jackets, they could all be found alive

 

[DovaDawg]

Well if he did not try to work in a "Hotty Toddy" or the name "Ole Miss" at a completely irrelevant time, then it was probably not Shep.

Shep: "When I see the dramatic pictures of this capsized boat, it reminds me of another sinking ship that was once the Ole Miss football program. That same Ole Miss football program that won the Cotton Bowl this year and I have to think that if that ship can be saved, than so can these people in distress. I know I will personally say a Hotty Toddy for the families tonight."

 

[Xenomorph]

...it wouldn't surprise me if they found all 3 alive.

 

[bonedaddy401]

/

 

[cowbell9]

nm

 

[fishwater99]

It was not Shep....</p>

 

[PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA]

water the last thing you want to have on is a flip flop."

Really? Everybody knows that? Me...I'd prefer not to be treading water in the middle of the damn Gulf of Mexico. The flip flop would be the last damn thing I'd think about.

 

[PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA]

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[falzaergo]

everyone knows that athletes can't float. Seriously; their low body fat numbers with lots of heavy muscle and dense bone structure is not good for treading water. Hopefully they were wearing life vests. That is their best chance. Certainly pulling for them.

 

[bonedaddy401]

Thanks for providing a little logic to your potentially racists remarks.

 

[Coach33.sixpack]

Really? You were the only one that thought it was racist. Muscle mass in an athlete has nothing to do with color

 

[bonedaddy401]

Click here!

 

[seshomoru]

This one is actually true. Athletes (and I'm assuming these guys are DBs or something and not fat *** linemen) have a much lower body fat percentage. Fat floats, so because they have less of it, the float less easily. The bone density thing is correct also. It's been shown that African-Americans have a greater increase in bone density after puberty. Asians actually have less increase than your average whitey. Of course, they were studying racial differences in bone density to figure out why osteoperosis was rare among black women, but denser bones means really do mean you float less easily.

However....

This is all well and good when applied to getting in the pool at your local YMCA. When miles away from shore, drifting in the cold open ocean with 9 foot swells, being a fat white guy isn't going to matter in the slightest.

/Really, it's all whether you may more or less than a duck.

 

[DawgMedic]

It's about hypothermia setting in. The more muscle you have, the quicker you become hypothermic. I had to write a term paper on the subject in school. Their only chance was to stay with the boat and warm up during the day if they could.

 

[Fratrebel]

Life jackets or not the water is cold, seas are rough, and they have been out there for a pretty long time. 10-15 foot swells and winds up to 40-50 knots, kind of hard to expect someone to hold onto the hull of a boat for over 24 hours.