Showing posts with label coast guard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coast guard. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

As If Finishing in Last wasn't enough

While this may not make national news, the bay area community is in a frenzy over the story coming out of Florida about missing Oakland Raider linebacker Marquis Cooper. Cooper, along with three other men were in Florida and took a 21-foot single engine boat out for a day of fishing. The boat never returned.

According to Coast Guard Captain Timothy Close, seas were well developed, and in no condition for a 21-foot boat to be tackeling. To give you a sense of that size, observe my picture of my wakeboard boat, which is 20 feet, 9 in long. With this boat being in seas of swells of at least 7 ft, is it really any wonder that the boat disappeared.