Posted on 01/10/2015 9:41:57 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
Former Miami Dolphins fullback Rob Konrad apparently fell off his boat off the South Florida coast but arrived safely on shore early Thursday morning after swimming at least 10 hours and nine miles through the Atlantic Ocean waters, according to the Coast Guard.
Konrad was wearing only his underwear when he approached the driveway gate of 1800 S. Ocean Blvd. and told a Palm Beach police officer working a security shift about his incredible experience, a Palm Beach police report says.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
“No dead-man’s switch?”
Most boats don’t have dead-man’s switch.
http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&product=CWF&issuedby=MFL
The Gulf Stream is always influx in being further or closer to any given point of land.
THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF THE WEST WALL OF THE GULF STREAM AS OF
JAN 09, 2015 AT 1200 UTC...
5 NAUTICAL MILES SOUTHEAST OF FOWEY ROCKS.
10 NAUTICAL MILES EAST OF PORT EVERGLADES.
10 NAUTICAL MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF LAKE WORTH.
3 NAUTICAL MILES NORTHEAST OF JUPITER INLET.
If a person “falls off a boat” 9 miles east of Miami hours later, without even swimming, he could be 3 miles east of Jupiter or Palm Beach.
” cold Atlantic”
South Florida ... not NJ.
I see a Fruit-of-the-Loom endorsement deal in the making
Considering the team’s colors, he could star as Aquaman.
That is a long way to swim!
ROFL
In Boy Scout camp I was trying to obtain the Mile Swim badge.
Fist day we swam quarter mile, next a half mile and so on. I could not complete the full mile - it was brutal.
Nine miles? I really have my doubts about this story.
Good idea.
I seriously doubt someone other than a well-trained endurance athlete would tackle a nine mile ocean swim and have a remote chance of finishing.
Of course strange things can be accomplished when your life depends on it.
According to NOAA, the water temperature there is running 70-71. Good thing, it wasn’t much colder.
That’s cold enough...
Monday Morning Quarterback?
Rob “Flipper” Konrad
I doubt the story. How did he know which way to swim?
——I doubt the story. How did he know which way to swim?——
By the sun in the sky...?
Really not that hard to figure that out...
“Konrad’s boat was on autopilot to go to the Bahamas and he could not catch up with it, so he started swimming toward land.”
I hope it doesn’t damage the island too bad when it hits it.
Why didn’t he have a safety harness? I was watching a documentary on Netflix called “Maidentrip” about 15 year old Laura Dekker sailing around the world alone. Everytime she was on deck she had a safety harness to keep her from getting separated from the boat.
Yeah ours doesn’t. You can set the auto pilot and walk away. Of course that’s a really stupid thing to do so we use it to stay exactly on course but attended. There’s a lot of traffic out there.
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