Dive Boat Sinks in Pompano Beach

[CuzzA]

And equally annoying is the vertical cell phone video and the constant, "the boats sinking."

 

[Mouth Breather]

All our charters here, with very few exceptions, do stern tie-ins. Most charter boats are twice the size of Safari Diver however

 

[tbone1004]

All our charters here, with very few exceptions, do stern tie-ins. Most charter boats are twice the size of Safari Diver however

that does not make it "best practice" that makes it normalization of deviance

 

[Jake 10]

Quick response by other boats !,and thank GOD it was not at night

 

[seeker242]

Honestly, this does not surprise me.

 

[Bob DBF]

And equally annoying is the vertical cell phone video and the constant, "the boats sinking."

I rarely turn the sound on, but thanks for the heads up.

 

[Mouth Breather]

that does not make it "best practice" that makes it normalization of deviance

Of course not, and that's obviously not what I was inferring. However I suspect this was a drive shaft issue vs. a stern tie-in suddenly causing this issue after years and years of that practice.

 

[jadairiii]

...However I suspect this was a drive shaft issue vs. a stern tie-in suddenly causing this issue after years and years of that practice.

Even if they had bad shaft seal packing, and their bilge pump failed, the boat would have survived but for the stupidity of the stern tie-in.

Once that stern drifts a tad low, even it light seas, with the current and the wave, it gets sucked under and it is doomed.

Most inboard engine commercial boats will have at least 2 bilge pumps, on in the center and one in the stern (should have one near the bow too). I have found that boats like that, the stern bilge pump gets very little use (unlike your normal open fisherman day boat) so when it is needed is sometimes does not work. You see a situation like this, the stern tie-in pulls the stern down ever so slightly. The leaking packing does its work, the water runs to the stern and the non-working pump, the scuppers start taking on water......and you get this.

Rule #1

 

[O-ring]

Florida Man Experiments With New Anchoring Technique - also, in other news, new artificial reef just added off Pompano

 

[johndiver999]

The seas don't look big enough to sink that boat - if they were stern anchored, assuming the capt. would know enough to cut the line if a problem occurred.

They could have been bow anchored and messed up and got the anchor line around the prop shaft and/or rudder, then pulled the running gear out or loose and then water rushes in. One of my big worries when pulling an anchor - getting over top of it.