Fuddy is dead. If you could go back far enough in my posting history, you’d see that the only two images I ever posted were one of Fuddy alive, for comparison, and one of her dead. In the dead pic she’s drifted well away from the rest of the group. Although it was shot at something of a distance, it’s clearly Fuddy. It’s also, apologies to her family, a death’s head. As in, she was VERY dead.
I know I can’t convince you. All I can do is tell you that I am personally convinced. The reasons to need Fuddy dead far outweigh an unmanageably elaborate plan to keep her alive.
That’s my conclusion, ymmv.
When asked (8/15) whether Bruce Briley could firmly say that what was next to him in the helicopter was Ms Fuddy, he told the interviewer that the interviewer, "needed to understand [he, BB] was "non compos mentis" not in his right mind, and couldn't say for certain.'
In every event, at TV news report carried news of a death in the crash aftermath a mere three minutes after the first swimmer came upon Fuddy. He "according to protocols" left her for dead, performed no CPR on her, as protocols would have required were she not "certainly dead", though she (ok, the real Ms Fuddy) had been alive within the half hour preceding (we have that video of her kicking her legs and around all the other plane occupants).
A mere 40 minutes later a second USCG swimmer hoisted her into his helicopter, whereupon he and his team pronounced her "CRITICAL."
We might imagine why BB might have difficulty owning up to the two "different" stories.