Man overboard?

[burgundyben]

dont want to get into a how best to recover a MOB but has anyone here actually lost someone off a mobo? How did it happen?

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[mikemcgregor]

My mate was lying on bathing platform trying to untangle fishing line from stbd leg..following sea hit boat and..splash! Great I thought.....now i can have the rest of the beer!...But alas he managed to climb back and promptly went for the medicinal brandy!!!

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[mainshiptom]

I lost my hat many a times, does that count?

It has always been recovered !

I lost a dingy once in aforce 6 with very high waves but insisted on going back and getting a line to it ! Swmbo will never forgive me for that ! (She thought she was going to lose me ) she didnt mind losing me it was the bit about mooring the boat safley !

Tom

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[hlb]

Long John fell off mine in Alderney. Regretably he climbed back on!!!

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[itsonlymoney]

Not lost anyone overboard but have lost just about everything else. Mobile, wifes shoe, wifes best wine glass, fuel can spout thingy oh and lost the dingy twice whilst at anchor both times decided to swim for it trouble was last time the wind blew the thing away as quick as I could swim and I ended up feeling like a triathlon competitor must have done 1/4 mile then had too get by breath back before I could climb back in. Next time I will send the daughter, or the wife.
Ian

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[Roy]

No, but I fell off my boat two years ago between pontoon and stern and on the way down, caught my shiiiiiiiiinnnnnnn on the prop (stopped). It took a year and 5 doc appointments for it to heal, but the prop was ok. Official cause of accident = wet deck, wrong footwear and............ yes!! Too many beers.

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[BarryH]

Twice. Wife and daughter. I pushed them both! Welcome to the Bitchenbunker

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[tcm]

yep. Had some friends on board, and it happened as two people went for the same cleat, momentary confusion, one stepped back and silently splosh in the water.

It's for this reason i reckon that a fair bit of MOB stuff is a bit irrelevent - rather than practise getting them back in as "MOB training" more attention should be devoted to not falling in in the first place, and especially in the "lower concentration" phase of coming into the marina when loads of people do whatever they want, lots of clambering about with rope/fenders and hardly any chance of going over into shallow water to gettem if they do fall in.

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[Alistairr]

Yip, My wife.
2 Years ago, i broke my wrist during the season, and after a couple of weeks i was desperate to go to the boat. It brought a new meaning to singlehanded sailing, We went out knowing that berthing was going to be the difficult bit, so back at the marina, i executed a near perfect berthing mooring stern in, a friend was on the finger to take the bow line and my wife stepped off the side with the stern line.
Next thing my mate pulls the bow line in, which pushed the stern out, my wife is holding the boat by a rail on the back of it, she thinks no problem the fenders are out on the other side and it will rest against the neighbours boat,,,,,, except the neighbour boat wasn't there.......Out the boat went with her still holding onto it, and splash, down she went into the water, still holding onto the rail, into the water from the armpits down, We had 2 other people on board, and there was a few people on the pontoons, all they could do was stand back and laugh.....Broken wrist or not, I lunged over and pulled her over the side into the boat without thinking.
That probably why i'm still bother by my wrist.
I was really pissed off that it had happened, My fault trying to helm, with a broken wrist.



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[Piers]

A work colleague was taking his wife for a sail in a small dinghy. No lifejackets. Dinghy tipped over, both fell out. Wife came up under the sail, couldn't breathe, and drowned. Happened some 15 years ago.

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[Nat]

Drift fishing over a wreck when non fishing friend sunbathing/sleeping on foredeck
decided to stand up just as large swell came along. he went flying over side. No harm done woke him up though & cost him his expensive shades, & no he was'nt pissed.The scary bit was no one saw or heard him go in, first we knew was when he swam round the back of boat.

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[ArthurWood]

Few years back when we had 29ft Sea Ray on a lake in Georgia, friend (an experienced sailor (sail) was walking back from the bow as we were leaving our slip ( I told him not to go up there while we were moving, but he knew better) when he slipped and fell between the boat and the finger. He was heavily clothed 'cos it was winter. I shut off the engine, but we were still moving slowly fwd. He managed to grab the metal structure of the finger, but he didn't have the strength to haul himself out. Once clear of the finger, I restarted the engine and backed up to the end of the finger so my wife could get off to help him. I couldn't believe it when with one almight heave, my slightly built wife hauled this 15st man out.
What I learned was: a) don't let people with bi-focals walk around the foredeck when the boat is moving b) immediately throw a line to the victim and convince him/her to let go of whatever they are hanging onto and grab the line so they can be hauled aboard.
In the heat of the moment, we were more focused on gettting someone ashore to help him but it took too long manoeuvering because of his proximity to the only place we could put my wife ashore. He was OK after a change of clothes apart from a broken rib, a good shake-up and being very cold.

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[Roy]

Not a mobo, but a ship I was on in......1967 I think and was either mid atlantic or coming up to panama from galapagos and we were in a 'moderate' hurricane (Arlene) with about 70 - 80 knots of wind and the ship was battened and rigged with lines for essential crew... I remember being terrified as a young seaman as we pitched violently in 80 foot seas. Anyway, our Lampy got caught on the foredeck when a huge lump took 60 feet of stanchions & the side railing and him with it sadly. There was no chance of doing anything for him at all as you can understand. I can still see the scene today as if it had just happened. Ah well, tis the season to be jolly and all that.

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