Beyond the reef, the coxswain of a third boat panicked, quote, this is as far as I go, he yelled, and let down his ramp, and a boatload of heavily laden men drowned in 15 feet of water, end quote.
At the botched assault on Tarawa and Bideo Atoll, one coxswain at the helm of a landing vessel went quite mad, perhaps at the shock of steering through all the severed heads and limbs near the shore.