The Miami Herald staff report on what is known about Jose Fernandez‘s movements on the night of the boat crash, and the dangers of navigating that particular jetty. The more I read about this, the more it becomes clear that Fernandez may have been reckless:
Of course, there’s no way — at least not yet — to know whether the Kaught Looking was trying to cut a corner into Government Cut. Perhaps the boat was running alongside South Beach, planning to enter Biscayne Bay from a point south of Fisher Island or Virginia Key, and hit the unseen jetty head on.
Either way, said Wood, the accident shouldn’t have happened.
“It was 100 percent preventable, if they knew what they were doing,” he insisted. “Though you can’t see the jetty at night with your naked eye, you should be watching your chartplotter, the thing we use in boats that’s like a GPS in a car. It has a map with a little dot shaped like a boat that’s you — it tells you exactly where you are, and where the jetty is.
“And I don’t know if the boat was equipped with radar, but that’s also very clear. You see an actual radar image of where you are and what you’re going into. If it’s something solid, that’s pretty obvious. Of course, that’s assuming it’s set properly and you’re looking at it… If things start to look tricky, you say to yourself, am I too close? Should I turn away? I need to slow down and figure this out.”
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