From the Virginia Beach Tech newsgroup:
The boat was moored 2 miles up the Monkey River due to the hurricane.
There were many other boats there including the Agressor boat with
Richmond divers on board also.  An 18 foot surge came up the river, and
the only boat affected was the Peter Hughes boat.  Reports are that it
was on the south side of the island because the hurricane was going
north, it then turned south.  The only 2 still missing at this time are
an instructor from The Dive Shop in Richmond, and his wife.  Please keep
all the families in your prayers during this devastating time

To answer Barbara's question- actually this kind of idiocy goes on frequently. 
If you look at the whole story, Dancer was one of several boats tied up
together.  Also, 
there was a Barefoot Cruises boat lost in the same area with the entire crew
(no passengers) just 2 years ago trying to outrun a hurricane instead of tying
up and 
getting the hell off the boat.  You would think that people who live on the sea
would understand the lunacy of anchoring a 120 foot aluminum boat in 12 feet of
water 
during a hurricane!

Wendell


10/9/01 5:48:30 PM, "Barbara/San Francisco" <hlthcom@ix*.ne*.co*> wrote:

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>   Note the final quote. Who ever has heard of such idiocy? Does anyone have
>   more info?
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>   Barbara
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>   BELIZE CITY, Belize (AP) - A live-aboard dive boat capsized as Hurricane
>   Iris roared into Belize, and the owners said Tuesday that as many as 20
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>   people were feared dead.
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>   Twenty-eight people, most of them tourists from Virginia, were aboard the
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>   MV Wave Dancer as Iris hit southern Belize with 140-mph winds Monday
>   night, said Patricia Rose, spokeswoman for Peter Rose Diving in Miami.
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>   She said eight survivors had been accounted for Tuesday morning. The boat
>   had been chartered by the Richmond Dive Club of Richmond, Va.
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>   ``A strong storm surge lifted the boat in the air, snapping the line and
>   capsizing it. The boat may have hit a wall or the dock. It was secured,''
>   she said.
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>   The 120-foot boat had been tied to a dock in a mangrove along with other
>   dive boats and commercial boats near Big Creek, close to where the storm
>   came ashore, some 80 miles south-southwest of Belize City.
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>   ``Belize City was evacuated so we could not put the guests in a hotel. We
>   were forced to keep them on the boat,'' she said.
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