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Has anyone looked into the weather data from that night? The mention of high winds and storms makes me think this might have been a perfect storm situation for a smaller vessel like theirs. Small boats can easily get overwhelmed in rough conditions, and I'm wondering if there are any experts here who can weigh in on how manageable the strait would have been under those conditions. Could they have made it to a safe spot or just been caught out with nowhere to go? It's such a vast area they're searching, and the weather could have played a huge role in them being untraceable. Curious to hear thoughts on how boats of that size typically handle such adverse conditions!
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I’ve been following this case since I first heard about it back in 2009, and it’s always puzzled me how nothing turned up in the search effort. What stood out was how extensive the search operation was—they covered a 700-mile radius with the help of multiple agencies, including the U.S. Navy and the Canadian Coast Guard. That's not something you hear every day for a missing person (or two people in this case). Given the intense efforts and resources involved, it's baffling that not even a piece of debris was found. This makes me wonder if the weather conditions that night were far worse than reported, or if maybe there was some sort of equipment failure that left no opportunity for either Bennett or Larsen to send a distress signal. The motorboat had flares and life jackets, so the complete absence of a trace is truly mysterious. Just thinking about those westerly winds and storm conditions gives me chills. Anyone else with maritime knowledge care to weigh in on how things might unfold in this part of the strait with those kinds of weather patterns?
