What can you say about this..?..
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/austr...?ocid=msedgntp
If you jumped over the side to grab your lost rod, how far could the boat drift in about a minute or less?
A knot of tide one way and 10 knots of breeze the other.......far enough you will need to be a pretty good athlete to run it down. 2 knots of current and you would have a hard time chasing it down in fins.
He might have even been clever enough to jump out of the boat with it still running?