Fishing boat sinking in the White Marlin Open

[Ltfdrebbin]

Fishing Boat rescue

The White Marlin Tournament is held offshore of Ocean City Maryland. A boat had a blue marlin on and started sinking. A fellow competitor hustled over and saved the entire crew.

Lucky day!

[boatman61]

Blue Marlin - 1
Fishing boat - 0

[Pete7]

Interesting choice of priorities rescuing the beer cooler before the people in the liferaft

[TooCoys]

Discussion in progress:

https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...st-253938.html

[Ltfdrebbin]

Originally Posted by TooCoys

Discussion in progress:

https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...st-253938.html

Actually, that is a different rescue that happened almost a week earlier.

[StuM]

WHy do people take movies on their phones in potrait mode?

[BillKny]

Originally Posted by StuM

WHy do people take movies on their phones in potrait mode?

Because they are trying to annoy us old farts.

[ArmyDaveNY]

There was a video of this and the captain of the sunk vessel thought that his exhaust may have been the source of the problem. If I recall correctly, he said that the boat was trying to land a marlin when it was turned so that the transom was facing into the waves. He thought that his exhaust was damaged by this and allowed water into the hull.

I am glad that no one was hurt AND as an added bonus, the cooler with the drinks were saved!