Boat crash in Gulf Breeze Florida

[Barry Eller]

A Velocity crashed in Gulf Breeze yesterday. Killing the driver and injuring 4 others. A friend of mine was invited to go on the boat but didn't. Her boyfriends daughter did and she is in ICU in critical condition.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20130331/...ar-Gulf-Breeze


http://www.pnj.com/article/20130331/...ar-Gulf-Breeze

[dsparis]

Wow tragic

[Offset]

Not much left to tell a story. Very tragic that a life was lost and others seriously injured.

Hope for the best for these folks.

[Barry Eller]

[COLOR="#0000FF"]this is a quote from a witness on a local fishing forum...."I saw the whole thing. The boat was a blue color. The guy was doing about 70mph and hit a wake, flew, submerged the front, got launched about 30 feet at an 80 degree angle, and then shattered when it hit the water. After hitting the water, the back half was spinning in circles as fast as the boat was initially going before submerging about two minutes later. There were 5 people on the boat. About 7 boats arrived on scene with in a minute. 2 people immediately jumped in and swam the passengers to 3 nearby boats and went immediately to Shorline. 2 critical, one dead, and other 2 with injuries. All of the people were family and friends. I heard the people in the boat, including the driver, were drunk well beyond the limit, but I do not know for sure, My thoughts and prayers go out to their family."
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[Barry Eller]

from a local Pensacola Fishing forum....hit the wake of a 65' sportfishing boat...

I saw the whole thing. The boat was a blue color. The guy was doing about 70mph and hit a wake, flew, submerged the front, got launched about 30 feet at an 80 degree angle, and then shattered when it hit the water. After hitting the water, the back half was spinning in circles as fast as the boat was initially going before submerging about two minutes later. There were 5 people on the boat. About 7 boats arrived on scene with in a minute. 2 people immediately jumped in and swam the passengers to 3 nearby boats and went immediately to Shorline. 2 critical, one dead, and other 2 with injuries. All of the people were family and friends. I heard the people in the boat, including the driver, were drunk well beyond the limit, but I do not know for sure, My thoughts and prayers go out to their family.

[BOSTONCAMARO]

sorry to hear...

[Barry Eller]

This is from the Pensacola News Journal this morning

http://www.pnj.com/videonetwork/2275...ideo-of-rescue

[clayman]

This was a friend of mines boat. He just sold it to the now deceased gentleman. I only spoke with the wife, but she said they were really upset about it. She thought he wasn't experienced enough with the boat, speed and judgement. It was a 39 Velocity with staggered 700's. Still on the bottom, wonder what the salvage rights are? RIP

[joseph m. hahnl]

Devistating . Did you notice? The engine bay was still chugging along in the video.

[Barry Eller]

Details have been released about this crash.



http://news.gulfbreezenews.com/news/...rs_system.html

[Greg Guimond]

Tragically we see more and more of this stuff. How did your friends boyfriends little girl end up doing?

[CHACHI]

My thoughts and prayers go out to all the families.

Ken

[Pismo]

Amazing detail from today's media.

[gcarter]

This is tragic.
So very many things were wrong in this scenario. It shouldn't have ever happened if just a very few rules had been followed:
No drugs or alcohol
Life vests
Knowing how to operate the boat and knowing its limits

I remember a few years ago there would be regular threads on here where some would defend their rights to drink and boat and would argue how well they performed when drunk!!!!!!!
Fortunately, there haven't been any of those lately.
I would hate to read a similar article about someone here, particularly someone I knew.

[CHACHI]

This is tragic.
So very many things were wrong in this scenario. It shouldn't have ever happened if just a very few rules had been followed:
No drugs or alcohol
Life vests
Knowing how to operate the boat and knowing its limits

And kill switch tethers.

Ken