Ever try 'real' COB drills with someone in a wetsuit/drysuit? Some folks at my sailclub were talking about it, sounded exhausting. I think I'm gonna round up my crew, go up to lake washinton this summer and practice full recovery in warmer water near a beach I could swim to.
Reading through that report you linked scared the living daylights out of me. Wives just sailing the boat straight for 17 miles up on to land while dragging their drowned husbands along side on a tether..etc.. yikes.