Fatal boat crash in Solent

[ollyit]

another

[ollyit]

Originally Posted by Jasierock

Agreed, well worth watching this.

a good watch

[Revenger715]

I've come very close to hitting a metal post in the dark (a Northern Cardinal, unlit) off the coast of France. A tiny dot on my Garmin which is mounted quite low in the console and I was looking ahead trying to get my eyes tuned into the small amount of light which was coming off the moon! Luckily I wasn't doing 30 knots but it came up dead on the nose and I instinctively came sharply off the power before turning and giving a good throttle to miss it down the side of the boat. Still not sure that was exactly what one should do in terms of a manoeuver in the circumstances but it worked.



Big lesson learned.

[gtflash]

Until recently there were unmarked bollards off of calshot and I remember a crash on Cowes night into another unmarked buoy. I confess my boat sticks it’s nose up and I scan the horizon prior and wait till it drops and runs level to get a clear view. I could easily loose site of a brightly coloured and lit buoy. We don’t know the detail, it might be a freak accident of operator error. My heart goes out to the family and the injured, and potentially the driver who may or may not have been at fault.

As my wife said. “Oh my god that boat is similar in size to yours but slower, and the girl was same age as our teens, I never realised how dangerous it is” ... it’s a sport we choose but do we always consider the risk?