Info on Marquis Cooper boating incident

[SouthernCruizer]

Boat Incident

 

[wheatonFJR]

sad...

...and wtf were they thinking

...at the same time.

 

[beemerdons]

This death hit us especially hard here in Phoenix. Marquis graduated from Gilbert Highland High School as prep football star.

His Father Bruce Cooper is the sports anchor on Channel 12 and is very active in charity work. His sports show is the best!!!

Thanks for posting the report SouthernCruizer. I've a similar vessel to Marquis' boat, a Boston Whaler 15' instead of his '21.

For the life of me, even though the sea was wind blown and running big swells, I couldn't fathom how that hull shape flipped.

Reading about reconnecting the anchor line from the bow to transom sadly made it all clear; swamped by a following sea.

62 degree water immersion for length of time will make anyone delirious. When your body core drops that low, it's all over!

 

[SouthernCruizer]

When the seas are whipping up that bad, it's EZ to have a bad decision turn tragic. I never did like going out more than a few miles offshore, just too damn many uncontrollable variables , especially in a small boat. Tragic, but hopefully someone reading that report will remember it when they are in a similiar situation.

 

[beemerdons]

SouthernCruizer: I hear you loud and clear, Brother! I have taken my Boston Whaler '15 from Newport Beach to Catalina Island. Left the harbor at daybreak with the sea calm and Catalina Island in visual sight. Wind started building in Avalon Harbor at Noon and a voice was telling me that I better get to heading back or plan on spending the night. Five miles off of Newport Beach, with the jetties now in visual sight, it turned into a white knuckle ride with following seas and wind chop.

I'll now save that run until I can afford a Boston Whaler '27. Marquis' 21 footer was no match for the Florida sea that day!!

 

[radman]

And they lost the anchor anyway.

 

[HotRodZilla]

Nice Rad...Real Nice.

 

[charismaticmegafauna]

I used to live near a large inland body of water (about 1,000 mile shoreline) and some of the old-timers I knew actually remember when the indigenous Native-Americans paddled canoes from place-to-place. They always stayed within sight of land -- no matter how far away they were going. They reported that history proved that many who ventured out of sight of land were never seen again -- Gitche Manitou (Great Spirit) claimed them.

Their fears were proven often enough that they resigned themselves to staying close to shore.

Until...., they got cars and a Casino -- that is....