Man dies in boating accident near San Quentin

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/20/BAFO1J4DS9.DTL&tsp=1

Sad story. I think it important to note that the woman, who survived, was wearing a PFD- while the man did not and died.  They should have also had some safety light if they were going to be out in the bay at 1am in the morning...

Yikes, that story had bad ending written all over it.

I wear a dry suit with a PFD in the ocean now. I can float around for several hours without getting hypothermic. I am in Cork Ireland right now for business this week—a lot of the fisherman, rig tenders, etc. working out of Cork Harbor wear hoodless dry suits for safety with inflatable C02 PFDs. They're smart those Irish.