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Coast Guard investigating report of a person in the water off Georgia coast near Tybee Island
http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stori...gia-coast-near-tybee-island-27891.shtml?wap=0
Unfortunately not much info there.
‘Caught in a rip tide’
The boys had set out to fish for shark near a sandbar a couple of dozen yards off Sullivans Island in their small sailboat on April 24. Forecasters that day were warning boaters about rough conditions.
Oh, and if you value your sanity, stay away from the FB group. Holy cow. ��
Nothing found by Coast Guard on the initial report, unfortunately Tybee Island is about 100 miles west of where anything would be found.
#BREAKING coast guard says 2 helicopters and a boat completed searches off Tybee Island finding no signs of any person or object. @CBS12
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The red pin is the marina they got gas at, that is on the intracoastal. The Jupiter Inlet is just south of the red pin. They would have exited the marina and gone left into the inlet. Had they gone right, they would have remained in the intracoastal until they crossed under the bridge marked 811, west of there is considered the Loxahatchee River. The intracoastal continues south just below the 811 marker.
Just as a personal aside- My husband was born and raised in Jupiter; we just moved from there in January. He would not take a 19 ft boat through the inlet unless it was a flat calm day.
Has this been looked at? It was posted on a SM page, in the area.
13:13 looks like it has two people really close to the waters edge.
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I am a lake girl and not too familiar with the ocean, inlets, etc. I have seen where posters have commented on the skill needed to navigate the inlet out to the ocean. I've seen speculation that the boys could have capsized as they left the inlet and met with the ocean. Looking at the map, if they did capsize soon after entering the ocean wouldn't that have been fairly close to shore??
And because of my lack of knowledge...is there beach along the shore where you come out of the inlet? Seems like the area would be rather shallow closer to the shore? Or does it drop off right away? There must be some type of deeper channel to allow the depth for boats?
Thanks for your insight!
Just hearing search is over ..
:crying:
?? Where did you see that
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Per USCGSoutheast Twitter page, search is NOT suspended:
https://mobile.twitter.com/USCGSoutheast
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