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Originally Posted by tdatk
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Not sure there was a win. The captain of the boat -- seen falling overboard -- died. His wife took him off life support a few days ago.
He was a very experienced charter captain who simply chose a bad wave to ride into Jupiter Inlet (in FL), and the wave collapsed (broke) beneath his boat.
The common approach to dealing with breaking waves as you enter an inlet is to simply ride the back of the wave in front of you (and not climb up it or allow the wave behind you to catch up to you). By all accounts, that's what he was doing when this wave did something very unusual. Sad situation.