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Yes, if you're waist-deep a wave can make the water neck-deep long enough to get you in trouble. The other factor is the bottom. The place where the tragedy occurred has bowling ball sized rocks. It has tricky waves. If you trip, or your foot gets wedged for a second and you fall on one knee for a second, you are effectively neck-deep--even with no waves. I was fishing at this spot last Sun nite. Was thigh-deep on an outgoing and twice waves broke over my shoulder.
I will be buying a PFD and rethinking my entire approach, including fishing alone at night which is something I've always done.
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