[doorgunner69]

Good question. I hated the big cheap PFDs, but always wore my inflatable deployable around my waist while driving the boat. Wife hate her vest type, even though it was a water activated inflate thing.

Boat flips though, you may be trapped and a PFD may make extrication more difficult.

Hitting a jetty and sinking should not have been a lethal accident, but who knows what happened. Seen videos of those NW sand bars and the crazy waves.

[PIF]

PFDs will not save you or even be of much use in their case.