At least 8 dead, 7 injured in duck boat accident

[Silentpoet]

Saw one thing that said 16 missing.  They said 31 were on the boat, so maybe many more fatalities,

http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Emergency-crews-work-incident-involving-amphibious-boat-on-Table-Rock-Lake-488679201.html

[Al Czervik]

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[ASH]

wow ,  damn  prayers to all . that is weird and sad

 

so it just sank ? or get hit  

Edited July 20, 2018 by ASH

[Silentpoet]

3 minutes ago, ASH said:

wow ,  damn  prayers to all . that is weird and sad

 

so it just sank ? or get hit  

Apparently a storm blew through and the wind did it.

[XSIV4S]

They don't seem to sink too often, but when they do there always seem to be a bunch of fatalities.

[Silentpoet]

14 minutes ago, XSIV4S said:

They don't seem to sink too often, but when they do there always seem to be a bunch of fatalities.

I am guessing the people weren't wearing life jackets.  The reports are up to 10 deaths now.

[Eric]

Those Ducks are just nominally buoyant 2-1/2-ton trucks. When they get in trouble, they sink like, well, like open-top 2-1/2-ton trucks. Most of them I have seen being used with tourists have full canopies. They trap people when the Ducks go down. 

Prayers to the victims and their families. 

[ASH]

its sad and amazing people do not think to wear life jackets or in some states helmets .  very strange to me but i degress , im always thinking  this or that  , what i need what risks are. my wife said im to careful i told her if you had tractors flip over and almost crush you a few times you would be careful .   

i heard someone say something one day in a movie  "  assumptions are the mother of all **** ups . and i live by that .

[holyjohnson]

Duck boats don`t like broadside waves.

they list and tilt and roll.

 

 

Prayers the the victims.

[Silentpoet]

According to this winds were at least 60 MPH. They were 63 at the airport a little east of where this happened.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/19/duck-boat-capsizes-on-missouri-lake-multiple-casualties-reported.html

[G19 DB]

Wow.  I googled duck boat (never heard of one) and saw lots of pictures of accidents - on the water and off. 

Prayers for the victims and their families.

[DWARREN123]

A vehicle designed for extreme military use, never meant to be a fun ride.

[Dric902]

We ride that on vacation at Branson. My mother drove it

I can imagine what happened, tragic

[Airmotive]

The NTSB all but slapped an “unsafe at any speed” label on Duck boats 15 years ago after one sank and killed 13 tourists. The NTSB chastised the USCG for not regulating and inspecting them more rigorously. It appears the Board’s recommendations were largely ignored.

The toll for yesterday’s is up to 11.

These things were designed to haul Marines into enemy-occupied beaches, with low survival probability. Not tourists.

[Dric902]

I just went through our Branson vacation pictures. We did not wear life preservers.

if I remember correctly, they only had two. Both from mid forties so probably not original anything as far as engines or controls.

while discussing the history as part of the ride I remember the guide saying that they were sensitive to rough water as the sides were not high.

the wife and blessed mother thought it was great, I thought it was like riding in the back of a deuce and a half.

apparently the water was calm when they went into the lake but a storm kicked up very quickly, the footage being shown has the boat turned into the waves but maybe it was just too much.

damn shame.

 

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[Mike]

Just read an article that said 17 dead at this time.

[Glocks4Freedom]

My prayers to them.

[BMyers]

Such a sad event

[ASH]

this link shows the video right before capsizing ,  you can see a man on back either thinking about jumping  but he dont .  and that weather was really bad , why not turn around?  the captain of that vessel is a moron . 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/07/20/before-duck-boat-accident-missouri-vehicles-had-history-fatalities/806081002/

[Walt Longmire]

There have been highway accidents with them also. A bad one a couple years ago in Portland, Or.  I remember watching the Navy play with a couple of them on the Wa. coast where I grew up. They didn't look safe then either, but were cool since they could drive down the beach and then out into the surf.

[Silentpoet]

I believe they are now saying 9 of the dead are from one Indiana family.

[F14Scott]

One of the dreaded evolutions at AOCS was the helo dunker, a tube that sat six students, strapped in, that was dropped into a pool and then sunk and inverted. All we had to do was unstrap and swim gently out the window or door nearest us.

 

We did it several times, the last with blindfolds. Of course, the pool was warm and clear and still, and we had hours of training to prepare us. Yet, the weak swimmers needed several tries to get out successfully on their own. I got kicked in the face by one of them, panicking.

 

Now, take that and put it with 30 paasengers, no warning, 4 to 6 foot seas, 60 knots of wind, untrained civilians, and their being located hundreds of yards offshore, and I'm surprised as many survived as did.

 

I grow increasingly wary of small boats operated by others.

 

 

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