Captain Tyler Baruch’s cellphone video from Jupiter Inlet, now viewed hundreds of thousands of times, has turned a quiet local hazard into a viral wake-up call. The clip shows a shifting sandbar that nearly flipped his fishing boat and has local mariners sounding the alarm. Baruch, a Jupiter native and captain with about 15 years on the water, told reporters the shoal’s movement makes the inlet’s cut unpredictable and that a single wave hitting a shallow boat can capsize it. The video has renewed calls for faster, consistent dredging and clearer channel marking before someone is seriously hurt.
Baruch said he and his crew “almost flipped” on the shoal, and the clip has racked up more than 400,000 views, he told reporters. According to Local 10, Baruch blamed sand being placed on nearby beaches during recent bypass work for feeding the ebb shoal outside the inlet mouth and urged elected officials to act. The video has prompted other boaters to raise safety concerns on the water and at recent local meetings…