"About the PFD I was wearing.

Sadly, so many errors were made that day it is embarrassing to answer some of these questions. Though we had a large container on the aft deck with roughly 2 dozen PFDs, with some self inflating Switlic (sp?) and a lot of the usual large orange types, I grabbed the absolute worst one onboard. It was really for water skiing. Not what you want to depend on where I was for your life. "