PWCs really are dangerous

[RobS4588]

One killed, one injured in Puget Sound collision

A woman was killed and her husband was injured Sunday when the personal watercraft they were riding on collided with a boat near Brownsville, north of Bremerton.

The 47-year-old injured man was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His 42-year-old wife was killed. Their identities were not immediately available.

Kitsap County sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson said rescuers were called to the Brownsville marina after 911 dispatchers received reports at about 5:30 p.m. of the collision between a Sea Ray boat and the personal watercraft in Port Orchard Bay, the channel between the Kitsap Peninsula and Bainbridge Island.

Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief Joseph Repar said the couple lived near the marina and had recently married.

[dumluck53]

Didn't hear about that one, Rob. Like anything else, I guess, going to fast and not paying attention.

[bradvo]

I was wondering how this happened ? Please come back if anyone hears a report on this one.

[SomeSailor]

They talked about it on the news this morning. Apparently the husband and wife were running alongside of, and slightly ahead of the Searay when he lost costrol and crossed the path of the boat. The boat ran them down and then the skipper of the boat managed to get them both into the boat and back to the marina. The woman never regained conscience and the man is in critical condition. :(

We had a guy off our ship that was boating in that same area and fell off a large tube. He was at the back of the boat trying to get this large tube aboard, when the wind caught it and it fell away from the back of the boat. Skipper has a stupid idea and backs up... dis-embowelling the kid. He died a few hours later... but a stupid loss.

[Randygh]

I wonder if the Sea Ray skipper will be charged with negligent boating? If the PWC and Sea Ray were racing, they should have been far enough apart so that they could have stopped their craft prior to a collision. Boats stop quite rapidly and there should have been enough distance between the two so one or both could have stopped prior to colliding. (I doubt there will be charges filed unless extreme negligence was involved.)

This is a very sad story that seems to happen every summer somewhere in the state.

[SomeSailor]

Actually... they were WITH the Sea Ray. They are neighbors and friends. Can you imagine the guilt they're all going through/ Wow... what a loss.

[bradvo]

Probably enough to sell the boat and call it quits is my guess. But still a good point, how close were they? Sounds like they did not give each other room, but it is all history now.

[SomeSailor]

Yeah... you can think of a million scenarios where it could've gone horribly wrong. I always liked kicking up a wake for them out in the Sound, but I never liked it when they'd come alongside and run at me broadside to catch the wake right at the stern.

Really bad news though... :(

[bradvo]

The part in the story about the 2 kids being looked after by neighbors reallys stings.
I have told my wife when we are doing something kinda dumb before " who is going to look after the kids?"

Not to make light of this but now when i ask my wife this question she says " F*(k them"
I usually say, ya right.
They are 26 and 30 now.

[SomeSailor]

Yeah... it's always after the fact when we realize what we're doing is pretty damned stupid. :)

[Go Aweigh2452]

Hey Brad, seems we have the same attitude for our grown kids... our wives will have to share stories... :argh2

[Salmon Troller]

On a sad note, I see in the paper that the husband has also passed away now. RIP...