Posted on 03/14/2022 1:04:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The son of a billionaire banker was killed by a boat propeller while desperately trying to save his fiancée during a Florida Keys fishing competition.
Juan Carlos Escotet Alviarez — the 31-year-old son of Venezuela-based Banesco president Juan Carlos Escotet Rodriguez — died Saturday afternoon after jumping into waters about six miles off north Key Largo as he and fiancée Andrea Montero, 30, tried to snag sailfish from a 60-foot boat, the Miami Herald reported.
Escotet Alviarez dove into the water to try to save Montero when she fell overboard, but hit the vessel’s propeller immediately and died from his injuries, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission report obtained by the newspaper.
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RIP to an honorable man. I don’t know what the rest of his life was like, but he died doing what a man should do.
Amen to that
Honor is in short supply these days. But so is intelligence. He didn’t have to die to save his fiancé, just pay attention to what he was doing.
A man woke up Saturday morning with no expectation his life would end that day. RIP
No one is guaranteed one more breath.
He’s not the one who fell overboard. She was.
My dad, who spent 6 years in the Navy always said - in the unfortunate event you need to go in the water, never go off the fantail and never go in head first.
Yep, panicked and jumped off the stern into the propeller, could have jumped off the side I'm guessing. But I wasn't there. 60 ft is a big boat.
According to a post on the original article:
Montero, meanwhile, managed to get out of the water “without consequences,” according to an Instagram post by Venezuela-based journalist Angela Oraa.
She did it too early for an inheritance.
He was a good chum and will be missed.
That’s harsh, man....
Yes, an honorable man for certain.
But as a former lifeguard, you are to avoid and not jump first to save a drowning individual. You are supposed to first throw a life preserver and then, if necessary, swim up behind them and grab them, the idea being that if they see you coming and start thrashing and pull you down to gain leverage for air and then you both drown.
[He was a good chum and will be missed.]
Exactly.
There’s so much wrong with that apparent story it makes my head hurt. Jumping into the prop wash? Not shutting the drive down? Not stopping the boat? Not throwing a ring or vest first? Nobody had a vest on? A boat that big must have had at least a 36” prop which would sting at any speed? Just weird.
I wasn't aware that there are billionaires in the Peoples Republic of Venezuela ...
Guess some pigs really are more equal than others.
Too soon?
Guess some pigs really are more equal than others.
Hugo Chavez's daughter was worth $4.2 billion when he died. She graduated with a degree in "Social Communication", whatever that is. I'm not sure she can read or write but being the daughter of the dictator pays well.
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