Photo: Coast Guard 33 foot Special Purpose craft like the one involved
We will probably hear more about this
Coast Guard, pleasure craft collide near Manatee Pocket MIAMI — A Coast Guard Station Fort Pierce 33-foot Special Purpose Craft—Law Enforcement boat crew and a 23-foot pleasure craft with five people aboard were involved in a collision Saturday near Manatee Pocket.
The people aboard the pleasure craft were embarked by the Coast Guard boat crew onto the Station Fort Pierce small boat and taken to Sandsprit Park. One person from the pleasure craft was reported to be injured and was transported to Martin County Memorial Hospital for treatment. No other injuries were reported. As a result of the collision, the pleasure craft began taking on water and became submerged in the channel. The Martin County Sheriff’s Office is working with commercial salvage providers to remove the pleasure craft from the water.
The Coast Guard is working with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to conduct a thorough investigation into the incident.
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I suspect a career limiting move for someone, interesting to know what the lookouts were not doing, not good PR for sure – don’t know the crew requirements for sure – but seems to me minimum of 4 people on board. And even if you are not assigned as a lookout good practices suggest that everyone that can see outside be at least an unofficial lookout, at least that was the practice on all vessels I was on – be very interesting to see the investigation report. Glad it sounds like only one person injured – hope the injuries were very minor.
It’s interesting that they didn’t mention the time of day that this happened. If it happened at night, there are many more factors to consider, such as did the civilian boat have it’s running lights on. I’m not saying who is at fault here but a collision at night would certainly be more understandable than one during the day. As a former BM2, I feel for the coxswain however it happened.
Wasn’t it a 33′ SPC that was in the fatal San Diego collision at the Parade of Lights in 2011?
I think it was a RBS 26 ft – same manufacture – Safe Boats in Puget Sound – in a lot of traffic – in a hurry when they should not have been – going sort of half fast with the bow high and very poor forward vision
@Captmike, the news release says it is a 33 foot special purpose craft. any reason to think otherwise?
Sorry – my error not being more clear was responding to the San Diego incident – the comment above mine thought the SD incident was a 33, my memory is that it was a 26 and not 33
33-foot law enforcement special purpose craft – The 33-foot law enforcement special purpose craft is a multi-mission craft designed and built primarily for counter-drug and migrant missions along the U.S. maritime border. The SPC-LE was the first joint acquisition with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. https://www.uscg.mil/Assets/Article/1825091/special-purpose-craft/#:~:text=33-foot%20law%20enforcement%20special%20purpose%20craft%20-%20The,joint%20acquisition%20with%20U.S.%20Customs%20and%20Border%20Protection.
I am adding a photo of a 33 foot SPC.
I just checked and it was a 33 SPC-LE in the San Diego case. If I remember correctly, they were coming up on a plane which caused visibility problems and the coxswain never even saw the boat he struck.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-child-dies-crash-sd-bay-xmas-parade-2009dec20-story.html
Thought about that incident when I first read about this one.