Trio rescued after boat wreck

Florida Keys News

Friday, October 26, 2012

Trio rescued after boat wreck

Clung to piece of sunken catamaran as searchers plied choppy seas at dawn

BY JOHN DeSANTIS Citizen Staff

Carefree plans for a fantasy weekend twisted into a perilous drama for three men bound in a catamaran from Hudson to Key West early Thursday morning.

Frank Hacker, a retired Kentucky millwright and experienced sailor, found himself and two friends clinging for nearly three hours to the keel of the sunken 33-foot vessel, which struck a rock jetty at Key West's Northwest Ch...

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Why did the Army Corps of

Submitted on Fri, 10/26/2012 - 11:27am by Chi

Why did the Army Corps of Engineers put the jetty there? There are always boats wrecking on it.

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Because the Northwest channel

Submitted on Fri, 10/26/2012 - 11:25pm by trapper

was the major route for shipping to the Gulf cities from Key West, otherwise passing through the Rebecca channel; which is 40 miles west . The jetty prevents the channel entrance from being filled with sand. Thousands pass through every year without incident. Rough weather and the 4 in the morning attempt may have been a factor in human error.