Coast Guard ends search for missing boaters...

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xWraithx;2665432 said:
I seriously cannot imagine how I would feel out there in the black ocean at night with sharks looming all around me and the chance of being found getting lower by the second. Just wow..

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DallasCowpoke;2665493 said:
I'll say! I remember seeing the story on Datelne about 5-6 years ago. That dive boat company TOTALY *** up.

I saw that too... I think being lost at see floating hopelessly in the ocean is among everyone's worst fears...
 

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trickblue;2665500 said:
I saw that too... I think being lost at see floating hopelessly in the ocean is among everyone's worst fears...

Welllllllllllll......... That, or that pic of BP and "The Hair" run a close 1 and 2!

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trickblue;2665500 said:
I saw that too... I think being lost at see floating hopelessly in the ocean is among everyone's worst fears...
Being buried alive is mine.
 

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Hostile;2665550 said:
Being buried alive is mine.

Ayuh. Drowning and burning alive are my top two, but I've put plenty of thought into how much it would suck to be buried alive as well.

We are fragile creatures, in any environment or confrontation where our brainpower doesnt come into play, like in an animal attack.
 

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Hostile;2665550 said:
Being buried alive is mine.


Oh goodness yes. That would just be the most terrifying thing. You'd know you're dying, there is nothing you can do, and it's going to be slow and painful (in more of a mental sense probably than just the physical).

Drowning and burning would be painful, without a doubt, but those are going to be over, much quicker, than simply being buried alive and waiting for your air to run out.

That slow, knowing you're not going to make it, way of dying while buried would just be brutal to you.
 

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Oh and as for the movie Open Water...yeah that one was absolutely no fun. That would be a pretty scary, sorry, and depressing way to go as well.
 

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It's pretty much over.

The Coast Guard has suspended its search.

This is bitter.
 

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GimmeTheBall!;2665715 said:
It's pretty much over.

The Coast Guard has suspended its search.

This is bitter.

Damn that sucks :(

have they searched the entire search area and didn't find anything or is it just coming to a halt b/c of the time factor or what

this really sucks for those guys... I've been reading "Open Water" type stories/message boards a lot today cuz of this
 

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xWraithx;2665732 said:
this really sucks for those guys... I've been reading "Open Water" type stories/message boards a lot today cuz of this

Likewise, as have I.
 

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Dallas;2665652 said:
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There is a short story by Stephen King called Dolan's Cadillac, about a vengeance-seeking Widower that plots to kill a mafiaso by setting up a trap that lead to the mafiaso's car being buried with him inside of it, alive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolan's_Cadillac

From Wikipedia:

The trap works, and Dolan is stuck in his Cadillac in the bottom of the pit. One of the goons in the car with Dolan is killed instantly in the crash; the other, crushed by the engine block, screams at the top of his lungs out of pain and panic, prompting Dolan to silence him with his gun. Robinson then greets Dolan and announces his intent to bury him alive. Dolan then asks his tormentor "Is your name Robinson?"; surprise prompts him to lean over the roof of the car, just as Dolan fires a few bullets skyward. He misses Robinson, who proceeds with the burial. Dolan, increasingly desperate, pleads with Robinson for his freedom, offering him a large sum of cash (which Robinson refuses without question), before Robinson advises him he will be released if he can scream "as loud as eight sticks of dynamite taped to the ignition of a 1968 Chevrolet". Robinson gleefully listens to Dolan's screams as he completes the burial and paves over the car. With what must be the last gasp of air left to him, Dolan screams out, "For the love of God, Robinson!" as the latter drops the last piece of paving into place.
 

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Coast Guard set to end search for boaters


CLEARWATER, Florida (CNN) -- The Coast Guard's search for three missing boaters, including two NFL players, will be called off at sundown Tuesday, Coast Guard Capt. Timothy Close said.


Ex-college football player Nick Schuyler clings to an overturned boat Monday in this Coast Guard photo.

1 of 3 more photos » Close's announcement came a day after the Coast Guard rescued a fourth man who had been with the other three on a Saturday fishing trip off Florida's Gulf Coast.

Still missing are Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, NFL free agent Corey Smith and former University of South Florida football player William Bleakley. The Coast Guard began searching for them early Sunday after learning they hadn't returned from their trip.

"It's just gut wrenching, and it's just left me zapped of any energy," Marquis Cooper's father, Bruce Cooper, said Tuesday before Close announced the search would soon end.

"I know this, he's a fighter," Bruce Cooper said, adding that his son was an undersized linebacker both at the University of Washington and in the NFL. "He doesn't back down. He's just an extreme fighter. What I'm holding on to is that he's out in the water right now, just fighting."

Marquis Cooper loved being on the water and was an experienced boater, his father said. Bruce Cooper had recently taken a 14-hour fishing trip with his son. Watch Bruce Cooper say that his son loved fishing »

"I just told him I didn't feel comfortable looking in all directions and not seeing land," he said. "We laughed and joked about it. That's just who he is. It's his love."

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

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WoodysGirl;2665755 said:
Coast Guard set to end search for boaters


CLEARWATER, Florida (CNN) -- The Coast Guard's search for three missing boaters, including two NFL players, will be called off at sundown Tuesday, Coast Guard Capt. Timothy Close said.


Ex-college football player Nick Schuyler clings to an overturned boat Monday in this Coast Guard photo.

1 of 3 more photos » Close's announcement came a day after the Coast Guard rescued a fourth man who had been with the other three on a Saturday fishing trip off Florida's Gulf Coast.

Still missing are Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, NFL free agent Corey Smith and former University of South Florida football player William Bleakley. The Coast Guard began searching for them early Sunday after learning they hadn't returned from their trip.

"It's just gut wrenching, and it's just left me zapped of any energy," Marquis Cooper's father, Bruce Cooper, said Tuesday before Close announced the search would soon end.

"I know this, he's a fighter," Bruce Cooper said, adding that his son was an undersized linebacker both at the University of Washington and in the NFL. "He doesn't back down. He's just an extreme fighter. What I'm holding on to is that he's out in the water right now, just fighting."

Marquis Cooper loved being on the water and was an experienced boater, his father said. Bruce Cooper had recently taken a 14-hour fishing trip with his son. Watch Bruce Cooper say that his son loved fishing »

"I just told him I didn't feel comfortable looking in all directions and not seeing land," he said. "We laughed and joked about it. That's just who he is. It's his love."

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


Wow, this totally sucks! I was so hoping for a better ending then this after they found the one guy...

I wonder if they will ever be found or washed up on shore...because I cannot understand the other alternatives,

How sad...
 

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It's especially hard to imagine what happened if they were all wearing life jackets.

RIP :(
 
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