As the Bay Area continues to grapple with Tuesday’s terrible boat tragedy, we’ve slowly learned a bit more about the boat involved, its captain, and how four people likely lost their lives when it sank.
When 20 assorted family members and friends set out Tuesday for a memorial cruise around the Bay, commemorating the death of a loved one that occurred over ten years ago, no one expected to encounter mortal danger. But after a particularly large wave struck the vessel’s side when it was midway between the Marin Headlands and the San Francisco Marina, and perhaps — according to some local boat experts — because of the uneven distribution of people on the boat, the boat quickly went over and began to sink.
US Coast Guard Captain Jarod Toczko tells the Chronicle that while an investigation will take place and the cause of the sinking is not yet known, preliminarily it appears the boat was “listing heavily” and lost “a little bit of stability” after being hit by the wave, causing it to very quickly roll over to the starboard side…