[CGASMIA68]

Sad ending......

[Jane Long]

Too sad. 😢

[Ditter]

Years ago when we used to fish off shore in the Gulf of Mexico, we were headed back to Freeport at dusk. We saw what looked like debris , we headed over that way to check it out. It turned out to be 4 young shrimpers. They had left their shrimp boat in a small skiff and it had over turned.

They were in effect standing on the overturned boat with only their heads above water no life jackets. We got them all on board and were even able to get a rope on their skiff.

Their anchored shrimp boat was not even in sight but we found it and they jumped off our boat and swam to it. It was their lucky day!

[from occupied ga]

Really sad, but when I saw that their boat was found 70 miles offshore and they weren’t around it I figured the worst had happened. Youthful arrogance and stupidity mostly doesn’t hold too many serious consequences, but unfortunately add that to a big ocean, a little boat and some bad storms and you have this tragedy. The ocean isn’t a place to take chances.

[jumpingcholla34]

John McPhee said the first rule of the ocean is: You don't belong there. That's the right attitude: this isn't your home and that pretty wet stuff isn't your friend.

I was a kid once, too, and I would have been itching to see how far I could go in that little 19 foot boat.

[jumpingcholla34]

I do know how these parents feel. I lost a son who was just doing something dumb — probably a lot like these kids. This will never end for them.

[Hot Tabasco]

I wonder why they wouldn’t have stayed with the boat......

[anoldafvet]

I’m surprised that during this whole ordeal, nobody mentioned hypothermia. I would imagine that being in 80 degree water would cool the body to a fatal temperature long before 7 days had passed.