Winning post... Wife and I have sailed for a number of years including inshore waters and rivers and we always have personal EPIRBS on our PFDs. I think if these poor kids had even one between them this may have turned out better. God rest their souls.
The technology is absolutely amazing. You can have an epirb and strobe light all on a lightweight vest
I read in another forum these kids not not just fish, they did free diving and spear fishing .... If so that opens up other scenarios as to what went wrong
Failed to anchor boat, drifted too far, one kid got in trouble the other tried to help
Horrible awful thing for the parents