re: News reporting U-High kid fell overboard

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but the fact he did not attempt to get the donut is baffling.

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I just don’t think that he understood in that moment that it was likely his only chance to locate the buoy and swim to it.

He chose to swim to the illuminated boat filled with all of his friends first. Then, once he was left behind he couldn’t find the buoy, and the boat couldn’t find him.