NFL players missing at Sea...........

[Brian Fein]

They shouldn't have been out in 14 foot seas...

The story doesn't sit well with me.  Last time they found a random boat with only one guy left, they eventually found out that the last guy murdered the other 3 and threw them overboard.  And people just disappeared?  Vanished into thin air....

I am with Joe - this guy isn't being completely honest.

[Denver_Bronco]

Shamu ate the other 3. Serves them well..... Poetic justice.

[jtex316]

I'm not even really trying to be a jerk about this one - but this just sounds fishy to me (no pun intended). Why THIS guy out of the 4? Was he the strongest guy or just the luckiest guy? Or did some accident happen here?

When I first heard this story of "being lost at sea", i thought "ship w/o a rudder" - a ship adrift somewhere in the ocean that they would eventually track down - OR - never to be found / heard / seen from again. When they found the guy clinging on to the overturned boat, and the other 3 missing - I was really shocked about that. Let's say some turbulent wave comes crashing in and it sends a dude 20 feet apart from the boat - can't he just swim back and re-hang on? How did they originally hang on to the boat after going under the boat and putting on the life-preservers? High seas didn't sweep them away there...

I hope they can somehow investigate this story and check out the boat. "3 people have just vanished forever in the ocean" just isn't good enough in 2009. Google Earth can map the ocean floor and we can't find 3 dudes floating somewhere? C'mon, man.

[Phishfan]

Let's say some turbulent wave comes crashing in and it sends a dude 20 feet apart from the boat - can't he just swim back and re-hang on?

It sounds simple doesn't it, but it's not.

[Defense54]

It sounds simple doesn't it, but it's not.

That's what I'm figuring. When your 50 miles out it can get quite scary even for the biggest toughest NFL Player. I'm guessing they panicked and hanging on wasn't as easy as it looked. Those big muscle bound guys are probably MORE susceptible to hypothermia and cramped up quick.

I hope it still turns out OK.......but its looking bad.

[Sunstroke]

Let's say some turbulent wave comes crashing in and it sends a dude 20 feet apart from the boat - can't he just swim back and re-hang on?

High seas like that, Joe, the wave carries you 20 feet out, and then in the time it takes you to paddle twice and swim 5 feet back, the next wave hits you and takes you 20 feet further out. You paddle a couple of times back, and then the next wave carries you further out. You see the direction this is going, and it isn't in the direction of the boat.

I don't see anything suspicious here, except the idiocy of guys who either didn't know much about boating, or simply ignored safety precautions.

[Phishfan]

^^^ Right on Stroke. The boat owner's father has said his son was an experienced boater so I am guessing that they just didn't follow safety precautions.

[CF DolFan]

I just read an article where it says all of them were hanging onto the boat. After a while, two of the guys gave up, took off their life jackets and floated off.  The other took off his jacket and tried to swim towards a light he felt he saw. 

[Frimp]

Why would they take off their life jackets? 

[Phishfan]

^^^Hypothermia causes disorientation.

[fyo]

^^^Hypothermia causes disorientation.

and confusion, inability to concentrate and all sorts of other crap as the brain shuts down.

[Sunstroke]

One other thing to take into consideration when attempting to put yourself into their soggy shoes. The boat is looked on in this case as the refuge point, the place to cling to...and this is all well and good, but when the waves are that high and the sea is that rough, the boat also becomes the solid object that the massive tonnage of water is slamming your head and body against, and in some cases, you start out on top of the boat, but by the time you come down the wave, it's the boat that's coming down on top of you.

[YoFuggedaboutit]

The story doesn't sit well with me.  Last time they found a random boat with only one guy left, they eventually found out that the last guy murdered the other 3 and threw them overboard.  And people just disappeared?  Vanished into thin air....

Are you refering to the Bison Dele story?  What a tragedy that turned out to be. 

[Dave Gray]

Drinking salt water makes you literally insane.  Your brain swells and you do stupid shit like jump out of you lifeboat into the water.  It happens all the time with this kind of stuff.

The best thing to keep you alive in crisis situation is mental control.  Keep sharp and keep making decisions and you can stay alive much, much longer.

[Guru-In-Vegas]

^ Someone's been watching Survivor Man.