Sometimes, you just don't have the opportunity to recover remains. When you think of ALL the vast ocean life - dolphins, sharks, whales, who die in the ocean and we never see them. They just settle to the bottom.
The thought of finding two young men out there in the Atlantic, no longer on a boat, is insurmountable. As much as the family would like the remains found, I think we could spend the National GDP and come up empty. We can't spend all our resources recovering remains of deceased people where there is no foul play suspected.
Meanwhile, there are still people in third world countries who are blown up every day by land mines that have been left over from wars long forgotten. There are programs where volunteers build handcarts for these nations - because the people are getting limbs blown off all the time and are in need of wheelchairs and other prosthetics.
It's a sad loss that these boys are gone -but they're gone. Maybe as a memorial, the families could start a boating awareness program for that particular inlet, or set up another kind of program in their memory as so many grieving parents have done to prevent the loss to other families.
A good start would be requiring an adult on boats of that size. This isn't a rowboat in a lake, and IMHO 14 year old boys don't have the ability to pilot them. I say this, having cousins from the Pensacola area who both owned boats at 14 and one of them ran into a house in his speed boat. A house.
The thought of finding two young men out there in the Atlantic, no longer on a boat, is insurmountable. As much as the family would like the remains found, I think we could spend the National GDP and come up empty. We can't spend all our resources recovering remains of deceased people where there is no foul play suspected.
Meanwhile, there are still people in third world countries who are blown up every day by land mines that have been left over from wars long forgotten. There are programs where volunteers build handcarts for these nations - because the people are getting limbs blown off all the time and are in need of wheelchairs and other prosthetics.
It's a sad loss that these boys are gone -but they're gone. Maybe as a memorial, the families could start a boating awareness program for that particular inlet, or set up another kind of program in their memory as so many grieving parents have done to prevent the loss to other families.
A good start would be requiring an adult on boats of that size. This isn't a rowboat in a lake, and IMHO 14 year old boys don't have the ability to pilot them. I say this, having cousins from the Pensacola area who both owned boats at 14 and one of them ran into a house in his speed boat. A house.