Names of those involved?
STill no official announcement pending notification of the families. It has been released that two of the dead were teachers at a local school.
What I think may have happened was one boat was going up the river and the other came out of the nearby creek and cut in front of the other.
It happens a lot.
About a year and a half ago, we were cruising the ICW near Sebastian Fl. and came across 20+ boats Shrimping in the middle of the channel. Had we not blown our airhorn, several of the boats would have been roughly pushed out of the way by our rather slow moving sailboat, but, some of the folks traveling the ICW do go VERY fast, and, use autopilot. They don’t care what is in their way.
Saw a guy today here in Vero going through a bridge flat out. It’s all no-wake, but, this guy didn’t seem to care.
The article has been updated with names.