[sageb1]

We may never know exactly what happened. It was probably just a tragic combination of factors. When you think about it, all you would have needed is one person to overreact to the boat rolling with the wake from another boat, or simply to suddenly lose his or her balance and get thrown to the other side. It would immediately shift the weight and cause others to slide or fall to the opposite side.

As tragic and horrible as this has been, I expect when I am on a boat to have to maintain my own balance to a certain degree, depending on the size of the boat. And I'm everyone here has had an "oops" moment where shifting their weight has caused a boat to dip suddenly on one side.

[sageb1]

They are beginning to tiptoe around the idea that even though the capacity was ok by numbers, perhaps the passenger weight might have contributed.