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Originally Posted by oldE
A friend with whom I have spent some time on the water never wore a pfd and questioned my usage. I replied yes I could swim, but probably not if I entered the water because of the boom cracking me upside the head.
He drowned after falling overboard while working his salmon cages.
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I went sailing on the bay with my dad, who just got his permit. Boom came across and hit him in the forehead and he fell backwards into the water. I thought I was going to watch him die, but he had the gear and I was able to hook him to the side of the boat and was working on getting him to climb up the back of the boat when a windsurfer (Jonathan Livingston) came up to help. Took him to the ER and it was classified as a partial drowning.