Well said BR the whole crabpot story does seem like BS but I wasnt there so im not going to say either way.
After looking at the pics for a second time pic 4 clearly shows the ding on the ventral fin I was talking about. Same pic also shows some nice big creases in the empenage no doubt caused by impact so not all that unlikely that the ventral fin damage i spoke of in previous posts was also caused by impact.
Seems to me the big point is being missed, running into a sandbank at low tide! It happened on exactly the same sandbank 15 years ago because the guy didn't know the waterways well enough.
That would come down to pilot experience and we better not question that. As previously stated, Experience does count...Last week I was airborne before the sandbank with exactly the same load on board....but last week there was a 15kt headwind today there is only 5....