Billionaire banker’s son killed by boat propeller while trying to save fiancée

New York Post ^ | March 14, 2022 | Joshua Rhett Miller

[livius]

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.

[Yo-Yo]

[Hieronymus]

Amen to that

[hinckley buzzard]

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.

[Born in 1950]

A man woke up Saturday morning with no expectation his life would end that day. RIP

No one is guaranteed one more breath.

[FLT-bird]

He’s not the one who fell overboard. She was.

[PGR88]

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.

[1Old Pro]

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.

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.

[rimtop56]

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.

[Tell It Right]

She did it too early for an inheritance.

[Two Kids' Dad]

He was a good chum and will be missed.

[nascarnation]

That’s harsh, man....

[Obadiah]

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.

[Zhang Fei]

[He was a good chum and will be missed.]

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I’m glad I wasn’t taking a swig of the good stuff when I read that. Woulda been a waste of grog.

[Secret Agent Man]

Exactly.

[OldWarBaby]

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.

[texas booster]

Venezuela-based Banesco president Juan Carlos Escotet Rodriguez

I wasn't aware that there are billionaires in the Peoples Republic of Venezuela ...

Guess some pigs really are more equal than others.

[null and void]

Too soon?

[GaryCrow]

I wasn't aware that there are billionaires in the Peoples Republic of Venezuela ...

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.