Boat submarines (stuffs) at Jupiter Inlet as seen by a drone.

I watched this on the local news in Hobe Sound, Fl. last night. Technology caught this in real time via a drone. Surreal footage of burying the bow and broaching. Lucky the outcome was positive as far as no loss of life. Drone was in the right place at the right time as was the grommet surfer, Pretty quick thinking on his part for a 13 yr old.

I watched the video a few times a couple days ago and something just looked wrong about the boat. While it looked liked the operator didn't time the waves as best as he should have, it looked like the boat was bow heavy

I guess a large mass of water in the bilge would explain it. Problem is that most production boats do not have enough bilge pumping capacity as well as no visible/audible high water alarms.

A broach at best but certainly not a "pitchpole" more of a wallow maybe... Pitchpole, swapping ends vertically , not pretty.

26' Stapleton? I thought they were commercial fish boats. Also assumed built a lil better than to let it's bilges flood and become un-stable.

Good point, we didn't. At the beginning of what ended up to be a rollover the operator should have waited outside and timed the swell, picked the best slack period and entered accordingly with an approach at appropriate speed and also giving him the space to keep a slight angle to the swell even if that means S curves. While the editing leaves us guessing for those details, his approach looked to be straight on and the later shot with floating debris the swell looked to be in a significant slack period to me. Bilge full of water? Who knows.

Complacently.

Big rich hood, Lots of new boats, not a clue among them.
Mix that with an every changing inlet.

Amazing we don't hear more from this inlet.