On 3/21/2021 at 4:12 PM, CountryboyinDC said:

100 degrees Celsius, 373 Kelvin, and 212 Farenheit.  Coffee should boil at a slightly lower temperature.

Actually - adding any type of solid to water raises the boiling point.

 

Seawater for example. For every 29.2g (1.02oz) of salt per KG (2.2lb) of water, the boiling point is raised by 0.5c (.9f)

 

Source: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

 

2 hours ago, ironbjorn said:

McDonald's coffee used to be over 190*F, well beyond boiling point.

 

In no way do I intend this to be a personal dig: Please cite your sources.

 

20 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Actually - adding any type of solid to water raises the boiling point.

I'm going to have to play my Ph.D. in chemistry card.  The answer is no.  First, salt forms 2 ions, the sodium cation and chloride cation in water.  If we were to take another simple compound that dissociates completely in water, say baking soda, the effect would be different (I'm pretty sure that it would raise the BP less), but you're free to look that up, although I may use a different source.  There is no chemical compound 'coffee'.  Since my doctoral thesis/project dealt with supercritical fluid chromatography, I'm quite familiar with what is in coffee.  You see, the one commercial application of supercritical fluid is in the extraction of caffeine from coffee.  I could go on, but there's beating a dead horse too much and I'm sure I've done it here.  Short answer, coffee will have a lower boiling point than water.  It will vary, since what's in coffee varies.

I'm not going to go into what I think about the lawsuit.  I will say that the ultimate responsibility for both passengers and boat lies with the person in charge of operating the boat.

For whatever reason, if the boat operator decides to go on the water with an unsafe boat, or in unsafe conditions, then that operator is putting everyone at risk.

What a tragic loss. This is the “cast a big net” lawsuit. I’ll leave the family dynamic out of it.  Attorneys that specialize in injury litigation hope to get the named defendants insurance carrier to settle rather than enter into long term four cases.  The more named, the better the odds of one or all to settle. It’s pathetic.

 

The plaintiff could have tried to name the boat manufacfacture, outboard manufacture, last mechanic to work on the boat, the county, state and on and on.  Plaintiff will need to show each defendant showed recklessness, negligence or purposed indifference in some act that contributed to the death.  Triple sad.

3 hours ago, Columbia Craw said:

What a tragic loss. This is the “cast a big net” lawsuit. I’ll leave the family dynamic out of it.  Attorneys that specialize in injury litigation hope to get the named defendants insurance carrier to settle rather than enter into long term four cases.  The more named, the better the odds of one or all to settle. It’s pathetic.

 

The plaintiff could have tried to name the boat manufacfacture, outboard manufacture, last mechanic to work on the boat, the county, state and on and on.  Plaintiff will need to show each defendant showed recklessness, negligence or purposed indifference in some act that contributed to the death.  Triple sad.

I suppose you can call it a different form of fishing. Casting a net like that is perhaps like a box of chocolates... ?
 

To the topic, based on what has been disclosed, it looks like the fault appears to be on the captain. 
 

Tragic for sure.