Below is the relevant USCG Rescue Swimmer Triage. It shows that unless Ms Fuddy were "clearly dead," he
mustgive her CPR, but he didn't. Only in the case she was "clearly dead" (meaning
"decapited, incinerated, have major organs (heart, lungs, brain or liver) separated, or had rigor mortis or lividity present." could have left her (as in fact did) in the water.
And yet, somehow, forty minutes later, when the second USCG swimmer hoisted her, her condition became "CRITICAL."
Now Fuddy had exited the scenario about 4:10, just a half hour before the first swimmer found her. How could she possibly have been determined by the second swimmer to have been CRITICAL when 40 minutes earlier she was deemed "clearly dead" (with those criteria above)? Hmmmm?
Curiously, only at 4:20 do the "official rescuers" begin appearing on-scene, 3 helicopters and a C-130 command ship, to begin lifting passengers out of the water.
Once, according to the advance plane, the red-wigged diver took her place, she had a half hour head-start before the first USCG rescuer would find her. For her to be essentially a mile away, the "currents" would have had to be drifting at about 4mph, which is a brisk walking speed, were it on dry land. That's rather unexpected, wouldn't you say?
But there was a USN MH-60R Seahawk on scene that just before he put down his two smoke floats at 1/2 mile and a mile west of the original ditching site, said he saw "two groups of three survivors" heading westward.
There were still five survivors near the plane: FP, KY, FH, RK and JK. There weren't eleven people on the plane, only nine!
Is this a false scenario or what?
Maybe the Dolly that was lifted with the USCG in the half-inflated infant lifejacket was made so it appeared to have rigor mortis. But then when the USCG got it in the helo they saw the tag that said, “critical condition” so they did CPR.
Maybe that’s why it was also claimed on the very poorly-filled-out USCG helo communication log that Puentes, as he was being transported to Honolulu, may have been “slightly hypothermic” after deliberately staying in 79-degree water for about an hour before making a 6-minute-max swim/walk onto shore. Maybe that’s why they bundled him up like a mummy. Maybe there was a sticker on him that said “HYPOTHERMIA”. An hour in water the temperature of a “very warm” swimming pool - according to a site I linked earlier which said that even a very sensitive person could be comfortable in 79-degree water for a long time...
Seems like it was somebody here on FR who first suggested that maybe Fuddy was hypothermic - so cold in that water that it caused a heart attack or something...