Another boating tragedy

Couple die in boating accident off S.F.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/24/BA9F1DJLRA.DTL

"The swells off Ocean Beach on Sunday were 6 to 8 feet, Pichette said. He said he did not know whether the bodies were found wearing life jackets.

Yet another terrible accident because people don't give proper respect to the ocean an its dangers

Saw this on the News....

  The Ocean was Angry, about as bad as it gets...

    they had to risk life and limb just to recover the bodies off the rocks

F!! 

6 to 8 isn't too bad.  There HAS to be something else going on here, like a mechanical incident, keeled over during a tack...something!  damn shame, RIP

Bummer, wear those life jackets!

F!! 

There HAS to be something else going on here, like a mechanical incident, keeled over during a tack...something! 

My thoughts too. Very sad.

That water is friggin, cold too.
RIP

6-8 wasn't bad, but it was blowing a crazy gale out there...

yup,its not open water 6-8 foot swell.  There was heavy sustained winds and big tides....that makes for a very ugly gate crossing.  This one could have been avoided.  

This one could have been avoided.  

This is the bottom line.
 
    . . . and chances are, they weren't wearing pfds.

I was at my brothers bachelor party(thats a whole other story) on saturday and we took the ferry from tiburon to the sf port - it looked brutal thru the gate - big current ripping through the straights