Sad day for the friends and families of these men:
AP: The Coast Guard called off the search Tuesday for two NFL players and a third man lost at sea off the Florida coast after their boat capsized during a fishing trip.
Officials said the search would end at sundown, with Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, free-agent defensive lineman Corey Smith, who played with the Detroit Lions last season, and former South Florida player William Bleakley still missing in the rough, chilly seas.
I only remember a few man overboard alarms from my ship days. Each one of them ended with the body never being discovered.
The sea is vast and cold, and it's rare to find someone if they aren't spotted the instant they go over the side. I remember one time the alarm went off roughly six hours after a guy had disappeared. The ship turned around and headed back, but no luck. We never found him, and neither did the Coast Guard plane flying overhead.
If you want to feel futile, stand on the deck of a ship and look through your binoculars for hours on end, trying to spot a waving hand or a bobbing head. Pretty soon the waves lose all clarity, you're sun blind, and you realize that the chance of finding someone in thousands of square miles of ocean is remote at best.
Rest their souls.
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