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Wasted away again...
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17 dead after duck boat capsizes on Table Rock Lake
This is awful. So sad...
NEAR BRANSON, Mo. -- The Stone County Sheriff confirms eight fatalities involved in a duck boat capsizing on Table Rock Lake Thursday. Emergency crews responded to the incident shortly after 7 p.m. after a severe line of thunderstorms rolled through the area. Sheriff Doug Rader reports the boat had 31 people on board. He tells KY3 News four of those have been transported to a hospital. Some of the 31 on board include children. Divers are on the scene searching for more possible victims. The sheriff says he does not know how many on the boat are missing. The sheriff is asking for any family missing someone to go to Branson City Hall. It remains a rescue and recovery mission. http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Emer...488679201.html Last edited by Dartgod; 07-20-2018 at 11:53 AM.. Reason: updated the number of casualties |
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07-20-2018, 10:35 AM | #76 |
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Why was the captain going against the wind? Makes zero sense to me.
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07-20-2018, 10:36 AM | #77 |
Scarlett Johansson's boytoy
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07-20-2018, 10:39 AM | #78 |
Mahomes Fanboi
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07-20-2018, 10:39 AM | #79 |
Scarlett Johansson's boytoy
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you can see the Belle here, and I bet that parking lot just to the north is where the Ducks launch, you can see a boat ramp through the trees.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sh...!4d-93.3172096 |
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07-20-2018, 10:41 AM | #80 |
Psycho Bag Of Squanch
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Good luck with the insurance rates on those death traps going forward.
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07-20-2018, 10:45 AM | #81 | |
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The Branson Ducks will be liquidated (sold to Pattinson's brother in law.) and the insurance company will settle within the policy limitations unless they can prove negligence of the individual who was overseeing the operation or the driver and then they can go for jail time. The Company's owner stated on Nation TV that "the boats should not have been in the water..." stating the experience of the pilot and lack of warning for the storm cell that caused the boats sinking. |
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07-20-2018, 10:46 AM | #82 |
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There's no $$$ to sue
A company in Branson bought this "local chapter" of ducks Maybe insurance pays out? But I doubt this small operation has a ton of coverage |
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07-20-2018, 10:48 AM | #83 | |
Wish I had something clever...
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I believe that is correct. That is the ramp they enter and exit the lake. Looks like when the warning was issued they did head back towards the ramp, but must have been far enough away they didn't make it back before the storm hit. |
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07-20-2018, 10:48 AM | #84 |
Ain't no relax!
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07-20-2018, 10:49 AM | #85 |
11-5, baby
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07-20-2018, 10:50 AM | #86 |
My name...is Horace!
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Hindsight is always 20/20. He had every reason to initially believe the best move was to "ride the storm out" and not slam in to the docks/shore and throw passengers around. The possibility of capsizing likely didn't even cross his mind until that last minute or two, at which point they were already ****ed. Only thing at that point that could have saved lives is his announcement to abandon ship.
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07-20-2018, 10:50 AM | #87 |
You think you can get by this?
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07-20-2018, 10:50 AM | #88 | |
11-5, baby
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07-20-2018, 10:54 AM | #89 | |
My work speaks for itself!!!
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Your comment is fair though. But even if you're going to stand around and do nothing (as you put it).......isnt it, at the very least, a little morbid to film people dying in a tragedy? It's not like these people are photojournalists working for Time magazine. Maybe just me.....but I also remember a thread a while back where kids were filming a guy drowning where the theme/comments were similar. |
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07-20-2018, 10:55 AM | #90 |
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It shouldn’t matter how close to the dock the boat was, the captain should know the boat can’t hold up in those conditions. Why not have the wind at your back and just beach it?
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