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Ya’ll ever seen a boat skewered by a piling? Key west accident
Posted on 2/21/26 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 2/21/26 at 3:36 pm
Apparently the piling was on its side and the buoy was marking it…
Four hospitalized after Keys boat crash, Monroe Sheriff’s Office says
By David Goodhue
UPDATED FEBRUARY 20, 2026 11:28 PM
A center-console boat partially sinks off Tavernier in the Florida Keys on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. Monroe County Fire Rescue said six people on board were ejected after the boat hit a channel marker.
A center-console boat partially sinks off Tavernier in the Florida Keys on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. Monroe County Fire Rescue said six people on board were ejected after the boat hit a channel marker. Courtesy of Justin Miller
Four people were hospitalized after a boat hit a channel marker in the Florida Keys late Friday afternoon, according to Monroe County Fire Rescue.
The crash happened around 4:45 p.m. off Tavernier, an Upper Keys community between Key Largo and Islamorada in unincorporated Monroe, the sheriff’s office said.
After the boat hit the channel marker, the six people on board were ejected from the vessel, said Kristen Livengood, a spokeswoman for Fire Rescue.
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Posted on 2/21/26 at 4:25 pm to baldona
I bet that was a hell of a ride
Posted on 2/21/26 at 5:57 pm to baldona
Is that blood all over the starboard gunnel?
Posted on 2/21/26 at 6:42 pm to baldona
We cant see the port so I am guessing Cap saw the piling too late and veered hard starboard and caught it right by the console on port side?
Posted on 2/21/26 at 8:14 pm to deeprig9
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blood all over the starboard gunnel?
Saw another pic online that was clearer and it looked like damages fiberglass, not blood. Still trying to figure out how the piling went through the hull bottom like that and not from the side?
Posted on 2/21/26 at 8:20 pm to Clinger
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We cant see the port so I am guessing Cap saw the piling too late and veered hard starboard and caught it right by the console on port side?
Looks like he was hauling arse way too close to the bouy, regardless. I try to stay in between buoys and channel markers, not hugging them. But that's just me. Maybe just following his Garmin and not actually paying attention?
Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:33 pm to baldona
Tavernier isn't key west, it's like 100 miles away 
Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:51 pm to Saskwatch
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Still trying to figure out how the piling went through the hull bottom like that and not from the side?
From what I’ve read, piling was low to water and he pushed it up. Just weird that it came thru so far back.
Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:54 pm to Saskwatch
quote:My guess is they run head up on it... shish kebab style straight through the bottom until a vertical pin.
Still trying to figure out how the piling went through the hull bottom like that and not from the side?
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Apparently the piling was on its side
This post was edited on 2/22/26 at 12:00 am
Posted on 2/22/26 at 12:04 am to awestruck
Yeah, just seems like it would have came thru hull further up towards bow.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 12:07 am to awestruck
Barges will hit those single pile aids and push them over. Sometimes they break off but don't detach so they'll be right at the surface or floating just below.
The temp buoy is there as a temp aid to navigation and to mark the destroyed pile and keep people from running over the top of it until they can get out there and drive a new pile.
Seems like the pile was just below the surface and he hit it head on.
A one in a million shot doc.
The temp buoy is there as a temp aid to navigation and to mark the destroyed pile and keep people from running over the top of it until they can get out there and drive a new pile.
Seems like the pile was just below the surface and he hit it head on.
A one in a million shot doc.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 6:45 am to baldona
How many people on board?
Posted on 2/22/26 at 8:30 am to MoarKilometers
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Tavernier isn't key west, it's like 100 miles away
Keys, key west. Yada yada. Touche
It looks like 6 on board and 4 were ejected. Everyone seems ok.
It sounds like the piling was on its side probably hit by a barge or something and the lighted marker buoy was next to it for safety. Guys probably saw the buoy and just cruised by it on plane. Kinda hard to blame them, but they did cut it close as hell.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 10:50 am to Clinger
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We cant see the port so I am guessing Cap saw the piling too late and veered hard starboard and caught it right by the console on port side?
From reading it, looks like the pilling was just laying in the water or almost completely knocked down and it poked through the bottom of the hull. Like a knife
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