Among the five adult life jackets arrayed for the cameras, three are labeled with blue tape and marker. On the left is Yamamoto's and on the right, one for each of Rosa and Jake.:
only two are unlabeled. One would have to be the videographer's and the other would be the one Marilyn Briley's wore after she gave up the phallic-electronic one (see post #385.
Among the video frames, neither Bruce Briley nor the pilot are seen to wear a life jacket. Those two and Ms Fuddy seemed to exhibit a fortuitous ability to float without one. (Ms Fuddy's legs and feet are atop the water even though her life jacket is four feet toward her head.)
Since the second infant life jacket was found with an unpunctured CO2 cartridge and Ms Fuddy was seen at the starboard fuselage with a fully inflated (adult) life jacket, as also seen at the end of the scenario on the replacement diver:
Since the replacement-Fuddy also exited the scenario, it might be considered reasonable that the NTSB didn't collect the one he was wearing, which may well have been the one Fuddy also had worn prior to exiting the scenario. After exiting the scenario, she would have no further need of it.
No one is seen to be wearing the infant life jacket that had an unpunctured CO2 cartridge that the NTSB found.
(Or shall I say, "claimed to find?" Surely the NTSB's spotless reputation should not allow our minds to consider whether the NTSB would make any false representations or do anything inappropriate with evidence, right?)
So Bruce Briley is the one who didn’t have a lifejacket, which explains why there are only 7 lifejackets in the NTSB line-up.
Marilyn had 2 lifejackets; the one with the phallus/transmitter which she hid between her legs underwater is not in the NTSB’s line-up either. But the other one is there.
Which means that one of those there is the one the USCG says they retrieved “Fuddy” with and tore off her. Only one is torn. Not much chance to mistake which one the USCG claimed to have taken off of Fuddy... It’s the one that the NTSB marked with “FUDDY” and analyzed the CO2 cartridges from. It had one CO2 cartridge intact - in spite of the many images you’ve posted, rx, showing that both her lifejacket’s chambers were inflated. What the USCG claims to have retrieved with Fuddy is not what Fuddy is videotaped wearing. Who DID they retrieve, then, and claim it was Fuddy?
So Bruce is saying Fuddy died in his arms. How does that work when she was put next to him in the helo and was supposedly being given CPR? And why would he tell an interviewer that he couldn’t be sure it was her because he was out of his mind at that point - yet go on to put in his book that he held her as she died?
I can’t see the article because I’m not a subscriber to “Maui Now”. Apparently the rest of this crew here must be subscribers. I wonder if they’re from Maui. Where you guys all from?