Adding lights on the jetty where Marlins star José Fernández crashed his powerboat in a fatal wreck could confuse skippers used to the existing system of channel markers, the U.S. Coast Guard said in declining requests to make the rocky breakwater easier to see at night.
Fernández’s death at the helm of his powerboat in the predawn darkness of Sept. 25, 2016, put pressure on the Coast Guard to boost the visibility of the unlit jetty where he and two passengers died. The rocks jut about 1,000 feet into the ocean off South Beach’s Government Cut entrance, and peek above the waves at high tide.