Rope sucked in through output nozzle?

[cwoav8r]

So... I have sucked up my share of ropes, but never had this happen and I can't find any reference on the forum that it has to anyone else. Wife was in the water and I was backing down from the beach. All at the same time the stbd engine died, the stbd throttle slammed forward and she yelled ROPE! I had a stern line coiled up on the swim platform and without checking I didn't realize someone had pulled it off to hang on to.

No big deal, I went to the clean out and since she was already in the water so I sent her to the intake grate. I loosened the rope and told her to start pulling it out "it's not in the intake" Well there is rope all over the impeller, and it's still attached to the cleat so... that's when it hit me that the throttle had slammed forward. "Check the nozzle", sure enough it went in through the output nozzle. How the...

Am I the first to get it backwards like that?

 

[drewkaree]

You are NOT allowed on my boat until the black clouds pass over you!

 

[Cambo]

Need a picture of that cant even understand how it could make its way into the out put unless someone fed it in while the motor was off.

 

[cwoav8r]

You are NOT allowed on my boat until the black clouds pass over you!

I know, I am a firm beliver in the "chain of events" that leads to mishaps... and after the second "event" in one day, I go home... and fortunately that was the only one.

Need a picture of that cant even understand how it could make its way into the out put unless someone fed it in while the motor was off.

I would have considered sabotage but I was running at idle for at least two minutes or more waiting for my son to get the anchor off the beach and stored in the locker. It wasn't until I started backing off that it went in. Before that the pumps were fully submerged and my dock lines float. Kind of defies everething I know about suck and blow motors...