Posted on 07/19/2018 10:42:03 PM PDT by Mozilla
BRANSON — Eleven people, including at least one child, are dead after an amphibious duck boat capsized Thursday evening on Table Rock Lake.
At least seven other passengers were injured, including one in serious condition.
Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader updated the casualty information just after 11 p.m. Thursday. The Ride the Ducks tourist boat sank near the Showboat Branson Belle with a reported 31 people on board.
Rader said emergency personnel were still searching for at least five people.
CoxHealth said in a statement victims were being treated at Cox Branson. Spokeswoman Kaitlyn McConnell said the patients were a mix of adults and children. She said the hospital routinely practices for emergency events like this and Thursday night was an all-hands-on-deck situation.
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Oh man that was terrible. Just a bad situation all around.
They were out on the water during a T-storm warning with high straight line winds. The Duck Boats are amphibious, but this created very rough, ocean-like conditions- I’m not sure they were designed for high waves.
This is heartbreaking, especially since they were so close to safety.
I find it unfathomable that apparently most didn’t don life jackets during those long minutes while the boats were flooding out.
They had enough time to run through a ten-point checklist. What other ten things were more important than getting into life jackets? Or have we reached the point that if we can’t save our smartphones we just don’t want to live?
lived in spfld for 13 yrs and remember accidents and debates of closing them. Also had an 80 mph straight line wind blow all the trees down on only our block. My heart is broken for the families and I know the people of the area are all pulling together in prayer and deed.
I know the Bears can take care of themselves, my FRiend! :-)
What the hell were they doing out on the water in weather like that?
I really don’t know - I wonder what their protocol is. That specific area had a T-storm warning at 6:30 and they capsized after 7. They did review the radar on the local news, and apparently it was the very leading edge of the storm system that got them.
I wonder if they were out too far and didn’t have time to get back after the warning was issued.
Beautiful place. Used to fly a Cesna around that place
Yikes. Why didn’t everyone on board have their lifejackets on. They knew they were in trouble for several minutes at least. They could have donned them and jump overboard awaiting rescue right? Sad :(
I was thinking the same thing. I think they call it “normalcy bias” - that one never thinks it will get as bad as it possibly could.
Even the captain of the “boat” I suppose. “Well, it is pretty rough, but I’ve hit rough weather before - if I can just get behind that point of land...we’ll be okay, I’ve never sunk before...”
I imagine with those windows and canopy that think was hell to try to get out of once it was filling up with water and the doors half-submerged, etc.
But at the first sign of trouble, start filing out the emergency door with a life jacket on and jump into wavy, but at least probably fairly warm mid-July water and you could probably ride it out until you could get picked up.
I know there have been other Duck Boat tragedies; this may be the final blow. It’s a shame. I have never been on one.“
Yeh, almost same exact thing happened several years ago on Lake Hamilton, near Hot Springs, Arkansas. Duck sank and took passengers down with it, trapped under canopy. You couldn’t pay me to ride in one of those things.
Now that I look closer, the sides on these might not just be covered but also zipped up at the bottom because you can see the cloth/canvas blowing out in the wind but it doesn’t appear to lift up. The only ones I have ridden were at Wisconsin Dells as a kid and those were open all the way around so we could look out.
Those DUKW’s originally had a very high capacity pto bilge pump. I wonder if it was removed or the captain failed to activate it?
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update:Eleven dead, five missing and seven injured after duck-boat carrying 31 - including at least three children - CAPSIZES on stormy Missouri lake, as final video shows its battle to stay afloat
Probably the later. We had some nasty thunderstorms pass by the KC area late afternoon heading southeast and that's probably the system that hit Table Rock.
I, for one, am sick of police types and their try-hard officialese. 'Person of interest,' 'mass casualty incident' etc.
They think it makes them sound intelligent and important. They merely sound callous and silly.
It didn't flood, it capsized. Probably trying to turn back in the middle of high waves and high winds.
It looks like that pleasure boat with the people filming wasn’t all that far away. How frustrating to be on that boat watching these poor people sink and nothing can be done to save them. Shame the duck driver did not call for abandon ship. They weren’t in the middle of the ocean. I wonder did they not have the required (or maybe it isn’t I dunno but it should be) life vests?
You would think that life vests were mandatory on all water craft. Also, it states ‘stormy Missouri lake’ and you have to wonder if the boat owners checked for bad weather risks.
Perhaps we are all just getting ‘careless’ - believing that government regulations, cops, coastguard etc., are always close by to save lives and rescue us.
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