Destin Pass Closed

[gcolton]

To my knowledge this has never happened before.

I have seen the pass and the Gulf very rough, but never enough to close the pass. They do not know what caused the condition.

Pass Closed

George

 

[psalzer]

Wow, I've been through there many times, some memorable, but never to the point where I sold have been closed !

 

[Billylll]

Wow it's sad to see the boats upside down, sunk and damaged.
Bill

 

[SCORPIO]

Is it just me or do those pics of the surf conditions not look that bad? Indian River Inlet in Delaware often looks like that on a decent day.

 

[gcolton]

The pictures do not look that bad. And according to someone who saw the pass that day it also did not look bad from a distance. However, somehow all the the wrong conditions conbined at just the wrong time to make the pass very dangerous. I think that the major problem was that all of the major waves were not all going in the same direction. Everything was going in different directions at the same time.

George

 

[Thudpucker]

At ADAK Is. in the Aleutian Chain there's a Crack in the Rocks, called Kagalaska Straight, used as a Shortcut to the 'other' end of the island.
I contacted a Chief with a boat to go around for some hunting.
He said we might not get through. The winds are pretty high today. Wow what an understatement that turned out to be.

When we got to the straight it looked like a Water fall turned up on it's side with Huge Choppy waves.
The surf was banging off one side, onto the other and rebounding.

Much taller than the boat and choppy in that the waves just existed in place. Not going in any particular direction.
I realized we might not be able to turn the boat around if we got into that stuff, and decided to forget it for that day.
I'm still here...