Buoyancy does not mean what you think it means (
assistance). Strenuous exertion and being naked are not required to float. Babies can do it (
see) in fresh water while fully clothed and without flotation devices. Fuddy was an adult who knew how to swim, strongly or not, in salt water with a flotation device and extra padding.
Equally kooky to a "kraken", "mermen", or "ninja frogman" theory is your "nothing to see here, move along, she died of a panic attack" theory. Statistically the circumstances surrounding her death indicate a high probability of an unnatural demise. If I accept that she is dead and that heart failure was cause, then the only interesting part that remains is the "how". Her heart related death is as suspicious as Andrew Breitbart's and Antonin Scalia's. "Coincidence" is not, and should never be, the default assumption in any investigation. Not even your Internet armchair investigation.
“Buoyancy does not mean what you think it means”
Really? Because I think it means a force experienced by a body in a medium denser than itself caused by displacing the medium. You have some alternate definition?
“Fuddy was an adult who knew how to swim, strongly or not, in salt water with a flotation device and extra padding.”
And yet she was still clearly in distress according to an eyewitness. Sorry, but I’ll believe the eyewitness who was there, over you, who weren’t there.
“Statistically the circumstances surrounding her death indicate a high probability of an unnatural demise.”
Says who? You’ve done a study dumping overweight old women who are not good swimmers in the ocean after a plane crash?
“Her heart related death is as suspicious as Andrew Breitbart’s and Antonin Scalia’s.”
I agree, it’s not really suspicious at all. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the US, after all.