
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.
The first rescue swimmer to reach Fuddy couldn’t find a pulse or get a response. I’ll have to leave it at that.