Another FLW boat crash

[Champ188]

1 hour ago, joeD said:

NASCAR and Indy car drivers crash all the time. They’re pros. No one gets too upset.

Do not understand the moralizing and finger wagging affontry because of a rare boating accident in a tournament.

 Yes I do. We know better and it would never happen to us.

FLW has experienced three major incidents in less than a year. Not hardly rare.

[joeD]

Lets let, in a given year:

a= all fishermen in all tournaments

b= all miles driven by all fishermen in said tournaments

c= a(b) where c is total fishermen miles

Let d= total accidents in the given year

Then

e= d/c  where e is the ratio of accidents per tournament fishing mile.

The ratio, I'll wager, is quite small. 

S*** happens.

 

[Basfis]

4 hours ago, joeD said:

Lets let, in a given year:

a= all fishermen in all tournaments

b= all miles driven by all fishermen in said tournaments

c= a(b) where c is total fishermen miles

Let d= total accidents in the given year

Then

e= d/c  where e is the ratio of accidents per tournament fishing mile.

The ratio, I'll wager, is quite small. 

S*** happens.

 

The formula is missing the common denominator at the national level. 

[Champ188]

7 hours ago, joeD said:

Lets let, in a given year:

a= all fishermen in all tournaments

b= all miles driven by all fishermen in said tournaments

c= a(b) where c is total fishermen miles

Let d= total accidents in the given year

Then

e= d/c  where e is the ratio of accidents per tournament fishing mile.

The ratio, I'll wager, is quite small. 

S*** happens.

 

S*** happens?

Go tell that to the family of the guy that died recently on Okeechobee.

Accepting tragic accidents as happenstance is a slippery slope. What if aircraft engineers did that? Auto engineers? What if the state police said, "Oh well, people are gonna drive drunk. S*** happens."

If that is your philosophy about driving your own boat, I hope we forever fish different parts of the lake. I'm not saying you're reckless, but saying stuff like "s*** happens" could sure lead one to believe that you are.

[fishinwrench]

Some sports are inherently dangerous.  They don't have to be, but we accept it and allow them to be.  

In racing, your career should be over, at least for a lengthy period of time, if you crash. The fact that you lost control of your car/boat/motorcycle and destroyed it means that you FAILED and obviously don't have the skills and decision making ability to compete yet.  Anybody can mash the throttle to the floor and go faster than their machinery and skills will allow. The first goal of racing is to finish the race. Winning or placing well is the secondary goal.  The fact that all you need in order to to race professionally is a fast car and some money, is absurd. How many crashes are ya gonna cause before you're not a hazard on the track anymore ?

Fishing has become the same way.  The best bass fisherman in the world is likely too poor to participate, so we'll never know who he is.  

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7 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

The best bass fisherman in the world is likely too poor to participate, so we'll never know who he is.

Ahem!!

[tjm]

17 hours ago, joeD said:

Lets let, in a given year:

a= all fishermen in all tournaments

b= all miles driven by all fishermen in said tournaments

c= a(b) where c is total fishermen miles

Let d= total accidents in the given year

Then

e= d/c  where e is the ratio of accidents per tournament fishing mile.

The ratio, I'll wager, is quite small. 

S*** happens.

 

if b equals all miles and c equals total miles then c=(a)(b) is false  and  c=b  (c)(a)/a=(a)(b)/a  because all equals total

[tjm]

So do the pro bass guys take over the entire lakes on tourney days and a Patrol gets real people of the lake and keeps them off or is this like Nascar holding a race through St Louis to Joplin on a weekday?

I don't much care if they kill themselves off and only endanger like minded people, there is a kind of Darwinism at work, but it appears to me that almost any one could wander out on the water and get run down by these characters. Just how far does it take to stop a boat traveling 70mph? I know on a Navy ship at 30 or so we'd travel mile or three before a full stop.  If all other users are removed from the lake how is that accomplished?

What I wonder is how are there not many more accidents than I have heard off?

[Bushbeater]

I'm surprised Wrench hasn't mentioned that here on LOZ the fishermen seem to be the responsible boaters. The bigger issue for us is staying out of the way to be able to fish.

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, Bushbeater said:

I'm surprised Wrench hasn't mentioned that here on LOZ the fishermen seem to be the responsible boaters. The bigger issue for us is staying out of the way to be able to fish.

The average fisherman puts in considerably more time behind the helm (in a years time) than pleasure boaters do, so in all actuality they SHOULD be better at it.  Especially since running a bass boat takes more skill than plowing up the lake in a 30' I/O or a 26' Tri-toon.