Miami... the boating idiot capital!

Ah yes, the Haulover Inlet compilations...... We watch them. And almost NO ONE is wearing a life vest....

I like the 2nd boat who launched the girl overboard. Notice he didn't come back for her? To me that would be a relationship ender. Any bets she stayed with the wave runner guy?
Isn't a boat's throttle like cruise control; just set it and forget it?
Funniest thing about that video is that none of those scenes were in what I would consider rough conditions.

All inlets can get rough, and yes I've run Haulover many times. In fact I've run most navigable inlets (and some not so much) on the east coast. I always assumed I would die coming in an inlet. Every one of those clips were boats that failed to slow down and/or time the waves, but I saw no seas there that should be a problem for an experience boater with his brain turned on and his hand on the throttles where they should have been. If that operator would have just gone to neutral she'd have come right to him as she did the wave runner. It didn't look like he even noticed her going overboard or that she was missing from right in front of him. Not a person I'd ever want to go boating with.

I think Bahamas are like 50 nm away from Haulover, but in reality most of the not so big boats go for a run of fun after taking endless gallons of flammable-liquids at the sand-bar.

To take a dump? And I don't mean passengers.

The ICW is an incredibly slow route if going up to Lauderdale, etc. In the ocean you can just set your auto pilot and go (hopefully maintaining a watch for divers who come out from shore and only show a dive flag near the surface).

Oops, Jettison Jane went over the side! See Ya Jane! Was she still texting? Waverunner guy scooped up a new girlfriend! Happy ending...

Different perspective of the same incident shows a guy going in the save the damsel. Jet ski saved him as well.

Many reasons, just to run fast is one. Diving,snorkeling,swimming is another. Or simply running from Miami to Miami Beach, or up to Fort Lauderdale. The Intracoastal waterway does the same thing but is much slower (albeit more scenic with houses). A lot of owners I run boats for will do something like run from Government Cut (Miami Beach) or Port Everglades (Ft. Laud) to Haulover and take the Intracoastal back to mix it up. A circle so to speak......

I saw her clutching her phone, which was almost certainly destroyed by salt water.

Yes, I don't get that either. You see many people rushing through no wake or slow speed zones all in a hurry, when they're out on their boat for a day to go nowhere in particular.

Mapism- most of the crowd you see in the Haulover videos are more interested in looking at girls in bikini's than rocks (and Beautiful coves).

Here's the sandbar that's 1/4 mile away from where those Haulover inlet video's are taken. You may notice that the crowd there is a lot younger and liquor infused!!!!

Mix girls and booze and young men trying to prove how cool they are and any stupid thing is possible and more than likely probable.

Might have said this before, but worth repeating... common sense should be mandatory equipment. With the explosion of larger / faster boats, coupled with folks who have more dollars then sense, we can expect a few more bikinis to be ejected from their ornamental positions.