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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
"Forty-MPH is a very fast speed on water."
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1) They did not say 40MPH was very fast on the water. They said 40MPH water is not soft.
2) He jumped out of a boat moving between 35 and 40 MPH, at night, had been drinking, and with no PFD. (You parsed out most of that).
Here is the full quote:
Peter Gruber – no relation to the movie producer – was last seen about 6:15 PM Sunday May 25th when he jumped from a boat traveling 35-40 mph on Norris Lake in TN. “He had been talking through the day what it would be like to jump from a moving boat,” Allen Ricks, wildlife resources spokesman, said. The boat was traveling 35-40 mph when Gruber jumped into the 30,000-acre lake. Witnesses said Gruber went under the water and never resurfaced. The water is about 60 ft. deep where the incident occurred. He had been drinking, and he did not have a life preserver. There were 9 people on the 25-ft. Powerquest boat when the incident occurred.
People usually think of water as “soft.” But when an object – a boat’s hull or a person’s body – is hurtling at it at 40 mph, is more like concrete. Mr. Gruber might well have died from internal injuries inflicted by the water on his internal organs immediately upon impact with the water. In such a situation, an inflatable life vest might not have helped him anyway. Virtually all of the dozen or so boaters who died over the long weekend failed to wear a life vest. In fact, not one person died who WAS wearing a PFD.
The real issue noted was the lack of a PFD and the fact that he jumped out of a perfectly good boat at speed!
Regarding the night time SL... this has been my point all along. Some nights 30 MPH is fine, some nights 10 MPH is too fast. It depends on the conditions. Everyone who has been fortunate enough to spend time on Winnipesaukee has seen the difference between a full moon-lit night and a fog shrouded night.
I know you will parse this to pieces, but really APS. Try some reading comprehension classes.