05-01-2011
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From the article:
"the Venezuelen woman was winching her husband up the mast of their Amel 54 in Jolly Harbour, Antigua (pictured above), when a riding turn developed on the foot-operated self-tailing winch.
Trying to free the jam, one of the woman's hands was severed and the other was crushed and John Ahlgren, a 63-year-old Norwegian sailor, who rushed to help her, also lost seven fingers."
Pure speculation here, but it sounds like an electric winch that didn't stop winching, or an operator who didn't, or couldn't,take her foot off the switch when her hand became caught.
What a horrible accident.
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