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Billionaire banker’s son killed by boat propeller while trying to save fiancée
New York Post ^ | March 14, 2022 | Joshua Rhett Miller

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: rip; sadstory
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To: OldWarBaby

Maybe daddy had him knocked off.

Nice neat story all wrapped up with a bow.


21 posted on 03/14/2022 2:56:56 PM PDT by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: Delta 21

Maybe this was a tragic accident, but I hope there is a thorough investigation by the local authorities to make sure it really was an accident.


22 posted on 03/14/2022 3:09:38 PM PDT by SlipperySlope99
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To: Delta 21

No,…….not the bow….the stern.


23 posted on 03/14/2022 3:11:15 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Life is what you make it.)
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To: Obadiah

People don’t think at a moment like that. You’re absolutely right, though, and I think boaters need more training.


24 posted on 03/14/2022 3:11:51 PM PDT by livius
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To: Born in 1950

Nobody knows. That’s the truth. I think we all just hope we go out doing the right thing.


25 posted on 03/14/2022 3:13:08 PM PDT by livius
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To: nickcarraway

As part of a billionaire Venezuelan family, this guy did not have to experience what most of the hardships the citizens of Venezuela have had to experience. Yet his wealth did not spare him from a tragic death. At least he died in an act of courage and chivalry.


26 posted on 03/14/2022 3:26:17 PM PDT by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: Obadiah

An awful question I torture myself with is would I thrash and pull my wife down to gain leverage for air. The survival instinct is so overpowering.

Shielding her from gunfire would cause the protective instinct to kick in.. easy. But going down for the third time might involuntarily negate all my loving intentions.


27 posted on 03/14/2022 3:28:02 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: texas booster

Yeah, for some reason the title doesn’t mention “son of a Venezuelan billionaire.”

IOW, his father was quite dirty.


28 posted on 03/14/2022 3:28:49 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Hieronymus

I too have no info on this man, but his one heroic act will carry on his name....prayers to the family.


29 posted on 03/14/2022 4:16:38 PM PDT by cherry (;)
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To: nickcarraway

Why wouldn’t the Captain shut the engines down if there was an ‘overboard’ situation?


30 posted on 03/14/2022 4:27:52 PM PDT by just Grace
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To: nickcarraway

A friend’s brother died in a small boating lake after being hit by a prop. It was the same lake their sister had drowned in 20 or so years earlier.


31 posted on 03/14/2022 5:18:08 PM PDT by utax
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To: 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.”

More money than brains.


32 posted on 03/14/2022 6:25:31 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: nickcarraway
Any siblings of the unfortunate dead man on board?

Just curious.

33 posted on 03/14/2022 8:15:40 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: FLT-bird

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

Buzzard didn’t say he did.


34 posted on 03/26/2022 11:22:44 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: just Grace

“Why wouldn’t the Captain shut the engines down if there was an ‘overboard’ situation?”

Just a guess. He had eyes on her and was maneuvering not expecting anyone else to jump in.


35 posted on 03/26/2022 11:29:27 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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