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The annual Columbus Day regatta in Deering Bay, south of Miami, Fla., “often” attracts partying boaters in what the local newspaper describes as “an annual hedonistic celebration that in the past has ended with a long list of arrests, injuries and on occasion, deaths.” This year, Juan Carlos Morales, 45, was knocked overboard from a “luxury yacht” — and dragged under the boat, where he was chewed up by the boat’s propellers. The name of the yacht: “Gotcha”. (RC/Miami Herald) ...The name probably being the last thing he saw before he hit the water.
Original Publication Date: 23 October 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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