A black bag containing Fernandez’s checkbook and four signed balls was turned over to a lifeguard at 24th Street, about a mile from the rocky jetty on which the 32-foot board crashed early Sunday morning.

Other details from the night of the accident were coming to light, too, with a report that one of Fernandez’s teammates urged him not to go out on the boat and another friend turned down an invitation to join Fernandez, Emilio Macias and Eduardo Rivero on the boat.

Outfielder Marcel Ozuna said Monday night that he declined to go out on the boat.

“Everybody knew he was crazy about that boat and loved being out on the water. I told him I couldn’t go out that night because I had the kids and my wife waiting for me,” he told the Miami Herald. “He told me if I didn’t hear from him by 10 a.m. [Sunday morning] to call him and wake him up so he could get back to the ballpark on time for the game. I told him, ‘Yeah no problem, I’ll call you.’ I woke up Sunday and that’s when I found out. I cried and cried.

“When I got here [to Marlins Park] and saw everyone so serious, I just shut down. I didn’t think my brother would be gone so soon.”

Yahoo’s Jeff Passan published text messages that Rivero sent to Will Bernal, a friend who urged Rivero to be careful taking the boat out at night.”I told him it was a horrible idea,” Bernal said. “Do everything you can to get him off the boat. Do whatever you can to get him on land.”

Bernal described Fernandez as “stressed out” and pleaded with Rivero to be careful, adding, “Try to keep [Jose] close to shore if you go out.” Rivero replied not to worry. “Trust me, it’s not my time yet.”

Officials do not believe that alcohol or drugs were a factor, but toxicology tests and the autopsies will offer more details. According to CBS Miami, Fernandez and friends were in a waterfront bar before the accident and a man took a photo of Fernandez and others at around 2:20 a.m.

The three men were killed when the SeaVee struck the jetty, which is one of two leading into a channel known as the Government Cut at the southern end of Miami Beach, at a high rate of speed. The Miami Herald reports that the jetty is unlighted.

“It’s like a land mine,” said Jack Garcia, a retired commander from Miami-Dade’s marine-rescue squad told the Herald. “At high tide, the tip of the jetty goes underwater. At night, you’re not going to see it – even if you’re looking.”

A flashing red light sits about 100 yards southeast of the cut’s northern jetty and boats that go around the light have no problem entering the channel. Garcia told the newspaper that operators of small boats cut the corner “all the time.”

In the immediate aftermath of the accident, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine said that improving visibility would be considered.

“Clearly it is difficult at night to see that,” he said. “It’s not that visible.”