Capsized Boat In Rips??

[SeaSunSalt]

A friend and fellow barner working in C.M. Heard fire trucks, sirens, ect.. Also several claims of a 18'-22' hull capsized in the rips area. Anyone out there today see anything?

[Captain Phil]

It was a 24ft Grady White. My boss salvaged it eariler this evening.

[Tip of the day]

I heard something similar on 16. ETA from coast guard boat launch to rescue sight was 5 minutes, so I imagine it was close to the inlet. Heard there were people in the water.

[Captain Phil]

People were ok. Im not sure how many there were. It was about a mile or so out the inlet.

[SeaSunSalt]

Glad to hear the crew is o.k. Could've been worse, water's cooling off quick.

[Jim Mac]

Ditto that, SeaSunSalt

[ED.H]

It's still laying on it's side in the marina .we could see it on the way into bree-zee-lee- this afternoon

[CastawayRay]

damn, thats a bit ominous ... a 24 grady is a fairly seaworthy boat, and glug, down she goes in those treacherous rips!

or was it more just pilot error?

:confused:

[TI Guys]

It leaked gas EVERYWHERE. It's all over D E and F docks down there, probably spread out into the main channel by now. When we left for the rips this morning it was on its side, when we came back there was a diver trying to inflate an air bladder to right it and the tank must have opened up somehow. Hope they can clean it up.

[Captain Cuda]

I heard it happened off of Convention Hall, Cape May. Anyone heard how it happened? It wasnt that rough out. 2-3 ft chop.

[Jacko]

Probably "THE BIG GREEN MONSTER", and yes there were a few of them around in the morning. Had one about 6 ft. high come out of nowhere. Had 5 seconnds to get my bow into it or it could have hurt.

I saw a 24 Grady a few times next to me yesterday with three guys in there 20's. They were just sitting fishing while rolling through the rips. They looked like they were flounder fishing in July. I wonder if it was them ??? Anyway...I'm sure they learned a lesson.

[johnny d]

I am alive today to tell my story of Capemay rips. I fishing 5 years ago with my buddy drifting eels across prissywicks on a day in December that was really warm, water temp was 45 degrees. So I figured I take advantaged of the great weather to go fishing. Drifting threw prissywicks sideways a rogue wave about 5 ft came out of nowhere and I had no time to react or start the motor. All I could do was hold on. What saved us was my buddy was on the side of boat where the wave hit. Had he been on the my side of the boat. I think we would've diffently of capsized. Neither one of us was wearing life jackets, but thank god man up stairs was looking out for us.

I should have knew better because we where the only boat fishing the rips that day. When I think about it if we capsized with no life jackets in 45 degree water I don't think we would have made it.

How long would you survive in 45 degree water with on survival gear on to stay warm?

[ 11-06-2005, 08:42 PM: Message edited by: johnny d ]

[Captain Phil]

I helped fip it back upright on Sat afternoon. It was tough. Took 4 hours. We even needed to have a diveer dive to attach air bags to lift it.

[Sterling]

I heard this weekend that, "In 50 degree water, 50% of the population can't swim 50yds to save their life."

[striper13]

That 50/50 rule:
1 - An average adult person has a 50/50 chance of surviving a 50 yard swim in 50 degree F. water.
2 - A 50 year old person in 50 degree F water has a 50/50 chance of surviving for 50 minutes
FYI........striper13

[Re-Bait]

Originally posted by johnny d:
How long would you survive in 45 degree water with (out?)on survival gear on to stay warm? NOT long. In 2002, my prop dropped off at the dock, and I went in to retrive it. Problem was the h2o was 45 degrees, and BAD RUSH almost didn't make it back to dock.

[loanfish]

Going over this time of year in rough weather/inlet is almost a death sentence.
I would never consider it when I was younger but with a wife and kids...a USCG jacket and satellite relay is not too much of an inconvenience. Remember, when someone goes over you have assign someone to watch that person as you are coming around. Its scary how easy it is to loose sight of someone so close.