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Razorback · Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 5:27 pm Post subject: Kayak tragedy at AP

Fatal Kayaking Event
Case #19-12983
For Immediate Release

This morning around 7 a.m., officers were sent to the area of Harbor Island Road for a body floating in the water. The male victim was found floating near Harbor Island north of the Aransas Channel.

Approximately a quarter of a mile west of the body police found the victim

Razorback · Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 5:31 pm Post subject:

Opps seems to have cutoff the rest...

Fatal Kayaking Event
Case #19-12983
For Immediate Release

This morning around 7 a.m., officers were sent to the area of Harbor Island Road for a body floating in the water. The male victim was found floating near Harbor Island north of the Aransas Channel.

Approximately a quarter of a mile west of the body police found the victim

Razorback

Here is link...
https://www.dosfrio.com/index.php?topic=5999.0

Transplanted · Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 6:13 pm Post subject:

Sucks that anyone would die while having a good time. But something doesnt sound right.

Approximately a quarter of a mile west of the body police found the victim

Maybe a quarter mile west of the kayak?

hickroots07 · Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 6:46 pm Post subject:

That's so sad. Prayers go out to the family. It's a good reminder that we are all living on borrowed time. Be safe out there.
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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12864

That was so sad. The young man's name was Trace Richardson who was married with one young child and another on the way. If you'd like to help his family you can make a donation here .
https://www.facebook.com/donate/2523362647694079/?fundraiser_source=external_url
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ziacatcher · Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 7:00 am Post subject:

What was really bad was that the Boater that hit him left the scene.

parttime · Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 7:46 am Post subject:

Donnie · Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 7:52 am Post subject:

100% of the time when this happens on the road, i.e. leaving the scene of an accident, there is alcohol involved. In this case, being hit by a boat, there is no doubt the operator of the motor boat knew he/she had hit something.
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SandJKENNELS · Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 9:16 am Post subject:

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bulldog1935 · Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 4:27 am Post subject:

It was Memorial Day weekend -
I brought up this incident on the Memorial Day weekend thread -
- this is why I never kayak alone, I at least want to be accounted for.

Low sun in the face of a power-boat driver is worse for visibility than night-time.
Two Novembers ago, we were paddling about 3pm next to the bank (within 20') on Arroyo Colorado, and a power boat came up due west on plane between us and the bank,
finally shutting down when he was right beside us, and between us and the bank. His boat was full of passengers, who no doubt were shouting at him.

Of course a power boater knows if he hits a kayak - maybe his conscience will cause him to turn himself in.
Giving any kind of right to a power boater in this situation is horse hockey. So what if the kayaker was legally lit and just in the wrong place when a holiday yeyhoo late to the jetties came careening by.
On average, one bicyclist is killed by a car in Texas every week. They always ask, was he wearing a helmet.

the seagull stole the heron's mullet, and a fight ensued.
now put a power boat on plane between us and the birds
behind us is a 400' wide navigation channel

SandJKENNELS · Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 9:09 am Post subject:

bulldog1935 · Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 9:15 am Post subject:

ESE is straight into the rising sun, WSW is straight into the setting sun - the reflection turns the water in front of you into sun, for an hour after rise and an hour before set

SandJKENNELS · Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 11:50 am Post subject:

Just read they caught the guy that hit the victim.
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