There is a route through the rocks to the right that has been used for many many years, I have heard it called Canoe Pass. I have been through it in a 12 foot aluminum boat, poling with oars on a low tide. I am not advocating it's use, only saying their is a path to the right. It is not frequently used by larger power boats.
Some accidents that have occurred in the gap are associated with water density. With the lake still draining after the tide changes due to the large lake and the narrow gap, currents are coming in from the sea, but still going out at the lake discharge, which happens to meet at the sand bar. Combined with wave action their is so much entrained air in the water, that the water is full of bubbles, effectively lowering the density of the water. A boat motor propeller is suddenly trying to push a low density liquid, and loses its motive force. People who have encountered this have described it as if they believed they had spun their prop off, and then were at the mercy of the waves and currents, with no ability to navigate away.
Perhaps the people who were to the right in this video were aware of this and were trying to be in different water, and were intimate with the location of "canoe pass".
Don't take these words as any kind of suggestion/recommendation on how to navigate the Nitnat gap. Great boaters go there, look at the water, and say "not today" and go back. The strength is in turning back to fish another day.
