Were they wearing life preservers?
As you and I complain and moan about the assorted mundane problems we encounter in our daily life, stop and count your blessings. I cannot conceive of the grief that now befalls this family. God bless them. And go up and give one of your family members a hug. Time with them is priceless, and only God knows how much of it we have.
We just had a Family Reunion at The Wisconsin Dells and took a two-hour boat tour of the Wisconsin River and all of the Historic rock formations, etc.
I don’t even want to imagine it. :(
Prayers up for the shirt-tail relatives that have to deal with all of this.
Prayers for all. So sad.
I just can’t imagine not having everyone on the Duck with a life vest on, or at least when it started getting rough, passing them out and making sure everyone had one on! Especially the children. There is no excuse for what happened.
The boat capsized in a storm. It was apparently not made to withstand high winds.
Shouldn’t have been out in that weather in a duck boat full of tourists.
So very sad. Prayers up.
Very heartbreaking.
We took that ride in the duck boats in Branson back in 2001 - wife, who can’t swim, says she remembers wearing a life-jacket - I don’t remember specifically, but I know I would have been uncomfortable with her going out without one - I do recall the lake was choppy that day and the water was lapping almost up to the window line at times - made me a bit uncomfortable - sort of surprised this kind of thing hasn’t happened before....
Reported elsewhere there was 60mph winds. Thats insane even for a rough water boat.
I will admit I do not know the topography of the land around the lake.
Why wouldn’t these boats have escape doors/windows like buses and planes have?
My family and I were in Branson this very week a year ago. You would see the ducks driving down the strip loaded with customers.
I would never get on one of those unstable vehicles. It is just too unstable.
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Every two or three years one of these sinks and usually takes several people with them. No one seems to have mentioned that these amphibious vehicles are at least 70 to 75 years old and have not had spare parts made for most of that time. I wonder how many of them have had unsafe repairs (to cut corners) made during that time. They were not made to last forever. They were made to be turned out faster than they could be sunk.
Saying the weather suddenly came up, upon them, is not holding true....
In the Branson duck boat incident, Reuters reports that National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Linderberg stated, “we had a line of very strong thunderstorms that caused 74 mph winds here in Springfield.” The Reuters article also states that 63 mph winds were reported at the Branson airport near the time of the incident.
Omg how tragic. And that Grandma. What a beautiful last act.
I had never heard of a duck boat and still don’t know what one is.