On the west coast I am getting little update on the boating accident in Florida with two NFL players and two college players.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hS6PqL0gP6nqbWGEj4Eniq8hJeygD96M49203

This is the latest I've got.

Click here for a local news report, perhaps prior to AP "filtering":
http://www.tampabay.com/

JohnJohn Kennedy Deja Vu?
I heard 4 news reports about "two NFL players" until they mentioned 4 souls were involved.
The NFL has volunteered to help any way they can.
Maybe some linebackers can serve gatoraid to the SAR crews?
Or maybe a Public Service Commerical about wearing your PFD in 12' seas.

Hope somehow they get lucky and find these guys alive. But unless they are darn lucky, I think the chances of that are getting slimmer.

I'd be interested in knowing about these guys prior experience n boats.

It didn't say if they were wearing life jackets. Without those their odds are short and getting shorter with every added hour. Then again people have been picked up alive after many days. So the chances are approaching zero but hope remains.

Just heard on the radio that the 1 guy they rescued was the only person aboard wearing a PFD, and that the other 3 were not.

That desn't sound good

Sounds about right to me, PFD's are so inhibiting. . .

Now they know the answer to the question, "How long can you tread water?"

I don't have much sympathy for these guys.

Latest on CNN contradicts that:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/03/florida.missing.boaters/index.html

Schuyler last saw his three friends at 2 a.m. Monday, his father told CNN affiliate WTSP in Tampa on Monday afternoon. The three were wearing life vests.

From the link in Doug's post:Wouldn't being anchored in 10' seas increase the chance of a 21' boat capsizing? That just doesn't seem like a wise thing to me.

Good to hear they were all in life vests.

Edit:
Just heard a Coast Guard spokesman saying that at the time the boat capsized they weren't wearing life vests and had to swim under the boat to retrieve them from wear they were stored.

Goes to state-of-mind your honor.

Search ends for NFL players lost off Fla. coast.