Originally Posted by Alter Ego
For someone to say or believe that boats pass 50 feet from the docks or shore is absurd.


For many years I spent my Sunday afternoons with friends on the dock just south of Caribe Island, I can assure you that boats do pass within 50' of the docks in that area. I also had the opportunity to witness a snorkeler almost lose their life just off that same dock. We had warned her not to go out to far and we had to sit and watch as a boat came up the coast knowing it was on a collision course. We yelled at her but she didn't bring her head out of the water to be able to hear us. We watched as the boat came closer and closer and prepared to call the police and to jump in the water for a rescue. At the last second she looked up, saw the boat, took one or two strokes and was luckily missed by less than a foot and pushed aside by the bow wave. The boat never slowed down and kept on going. She was about 100' off the dock...