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

Latest report says a 26' Stapleton and that the bilge already had tons of water in it before the approach with that water rushing forward as you'd expect. Not caused by the condition of the inlet as much as the condition of the boat.

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Looks like he was also slowing down. He should have kept in front of those following seas?

Parallels my thoughts. If the bilge was full of water, the drain holes in the bulkheads should have prevented water from rushing forward?

You could see how deep in the water the boat was sitting.

Free surface effect

water in bilge and a load of ice up forward..also the wave that pitchpoled him seems to crest and rise just at the wrong time for him..

That was an aggressive wave that the operator allowed to get under his stern. It looks like he slowed down to let that happen. Once he did that, the rising stern with it flatter/larger hull surface was enough to hold his narrower nose down? Also, in the first few frames the vessel seems to be riding as if its still trimmed down. Maybe bilge water was a contributing factor but IMO the capt made that stuff happen. How did we decide that significant bilge water was present?

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.

Jupiter seems to claim several boats/people. Remember the SF Captain that got flung from the helm and had a heart attack and died a few years back. Odd thing is you never see this happen with Boca inlet or Boynton which are both far worse inlets.