Like the Duckboat run over in broad daylight in the Delaware River off Philly 4 years ago. Both guys cluelessly asleep at the switch. But here no one died.
I would tend to doubt the scalloper has a USCG operators license. Surprisingly most of them do not as it's likely uninspected and definitely not a passenger vessel.
All that electronics works great with someone actually paying attention to it. Eyeballs work well too. Even asleep, you think 5-6 blasts on ship's horn could be heard a few hundred feet away? That was missed too.
Neither boat is all that small and neither is easy to miss seeing from even a mile away. Ironically one boat just altering course on the slow moving boats could have avoided this passing even being an event. NO danger signal to wake the other vessel? Luck saved the careless.
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Originally Posted by dakota560
Capt. Frank,
You're right both boats on a clear day in open water have to be partly at fault to have allowed this accident to happen. Hard to believe with radar, clear visibility, open water and relatively calm conditions this happened.
Both boats had a lot to lose, the scallop boat in particular in my opinion considering the potential for their three passengers losing their lives. Just glad everyone survived the ordeal.
Dakota
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