[Gerry Zagorski]

Wow, very sad.... Not sure what the conditions were like but from the photos they did not look good.

Wondering how this actually happened... Being told the anchor rope got caught in the prop. Maybe the prop turning tightend the anchor rope so tight to the anchor it pulled the stern under water?? Or , maybe being stuck on the prop, it turned the boat around with the stern into the seas instead of the bow and they got swamped by a wave over the stern.

I remember hearing a while back a similar thing happened to a baseball or football player down in Florida. Anchor got stuck, they tied it off to a cleat in the stern of the boat and gunned the motor to try and free.... That made the stern drop and they got swamped by a wave.

Either way it's a stark reminder that you need to be careful out there and be thinking clearly when unexpecting things happen.