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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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Time For Your Wake Up Call !!!
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07-20-2018, 12:42 PM | #122 |
In Search of a Life
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Probably for the best. People are eating and relaxing on the paddle boat while the duck boats are struggling. I don't know why the lady filming did not call for help? Towards the end you see the boat running out of steam and bogging down. The duck boat starts swamping with water right before the video cuts out, probably only seconds before it sank. I wonder if the paddleboat even stopped to help? Terrible.
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07-20-2018, 12:43 PM | #123 |
Time For Your Wake Up Call !!!
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07-20-2018, 12:44 PM | #124 |
Bono & Grbac wasn't enough
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When you're a villan like Hoov, you always need an escape route
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07-20-2018, 12:44 PM | #125 |
Better than Nelson
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Baby Lee reporting that all passengers have been rescued and are currently recovering.
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07-20-2018, 12:48 PM | #126 |
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I watched the video once this morning, and have not rewatched since reading this thread. While the video was a bit hard to keep track of due to the reflections, I thought it was the front one that went down. I also thought it looked like the front one did turn sideways for a brief instant before going down.
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07-20-2018, 12:50 PM | #127 |
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I wonder if the captain is lawyered up yet?
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07-20-2018, 12:50 PM | #128 | |
You think you can get by this?
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http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Mour...488743281.html
Mourners plan 3 candlelight vigils Friday night for victims of Ride the Ducks tragedy Quote:
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07-20-2018, 12:52 PM | #129 |
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All three at the same time.
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07-20-2018, 12:54 PM | #130 | |
Fight, build, win!
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When I was young we went to Branson and Table Rock Lake often our Dad never took us on the Duck. Him being in the navy during WWII maybe he knew something about those boats. As kids we always wanted to but Dad never did Instead we went on the cruise ship or rented a boat. There are very little regulations and they vary State to State I read on these things. Sort of like hot air balloon excursions any idiot can get a permit a balloon and start charging to float you into high voltage transmission lines. Still people will pay for the thrill. |
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07-20-2018, 12:55 PM | #131 | |
Wasted away again...
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The article clearly states: 1. The paddle boat was docked 2. As soon as the crew on it saw that the duck was in distress, they started getting deployed with life jackets and other help. |
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07-20-2018, 12:59 PM | #132 |
You think you can get by this?
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Video from the other duck. I'm not sure that I wouldn't be too freaked out to be getting my phone out to film if I was on the boat.
https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews...53212638/?t=24 Are those life jackets sitting in the front seat towards the start of the video? I think I'd be putting one of those on. |
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Wasted away again...
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07-20-2018, 01:02 PM | #134 |
Kind of a mod
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07-20-2018, 01:05 PM | #135 | |
remember, remember
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I will say, having been on one of the boats, they do offer you life vests but nobody puts them on... and table rock lake doesn't get that rough that often in my experience... that said, no way should they have let them on the water. poster before was correct, it's like an hour total for a duck ride |
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