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I rather doubt that the vessel had any yardarms, 60 foot is a bit short for a brigantine or even a hermaphrodite brig.
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Novice divers that frequent the BHB "Marine Santuary" should not be expected to distinguish a doppler shift and the whole idea of listen for boat traffic is tough at that site, because there is frequent noisy boat traffic going through the designated channel. How is a diver going to distinguish from boat traffic in the channel which presents no danger versus traffic that is right through the diving area?
However Dan is right (I don't say that much) probably best not to bitch too much. I've never seen a sailboat go through there, but it could make for a terrible accident.
Also, a much more common occurance....I have heard on Channel 16 a few times in the last a month about boaters reporting divers going out into the channel itself, it has the potential to be an extremely dangerous dive location because being just a few feet "out of bounds" could be lethal to the uninformed diver.
I am looking at Google Earth with a photo dated 3/21/2011 and the amount of boats and traffic around the BHB makes me wonder where you can actually dive safely. There really only appears to be one channel that I can see to the west of the island.
Divers need to stay out of the channel and be careful of that so we recieve no backlash, with the sail boats using to the east of the channel they are somewhat in the wrong since the channel is desigated by the retaining walls. Since BHB is a fixed bridge they should be using Jupiter if they are too big to pass safely within the designated channel. To me the video posted just shows someone inconsiderate, rushing to hit the ocean and being lazy.