Another Good Reason to Wear Your Lanyard

[Judge]

This is probably a good reminder for all of us to wear our lanyards when at the helm.... especially in rougher waters. The sheriff who jumped on this boat that looks to be running about 40mph in light chop has some big cojones and he was able to get the throttles back to neutral before someone got seriously injured or worse.




Florida deputy leaps onto runaway boat to stop it after driver falls off

Florida deputy leaps onto runaway boat to stop it | Fox News Video

Pinellas County Sheriff's Deputies team up with the Coast Guard to stop a runaway boat after its driver fell off. (Credit: Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office/BODY CAMS+/TMX)

www.foxnews.com

 

[sunbyrned]

That’s amazing. No telling what these guys do on a daily basis. Thanks for sharing.

 

[AZMark]

Paid the guy back for that by twisting his line up in the props at the end

 

[TeenGee]

Where are the people who were on the boat?

 

[Jim_in_Delaware]

Where are the people who were on the boat?

News reports are that the captain fell overboard.

Jim

 

[TeenGee]

News reports are that the captain fell overboard.

Jim

Did they find him?

 

[AuburnVFR]

News reports are that the captain fell overboard.

Jim

Probably because of a jet ski…

 

[captras]

The overboard MAY have been because of a jetski, but the jetski did NOT make him NOT wear his killswitch lanyard!!!