Posted on 08/08/2014 12:41:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"The boat operator made a turn to pick up the tubers when the boat collided with the two girls in the water, who were injured by the propeller," Gray said.
The second girl sustained a serious but not life-threatening injury to her lower left leg, Gray said.
Gray said the boat operator and a passenger tried to help the victims.
"They immediately lifted them aboard the boat and transported them to the Old Greenwich Yacht Club dock," he said.
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messed up
Two deaths...gruesome injuries...all from operator error and teen inexperience.
One of them later formed the basis for the legislature to pass the Boat Operator license law here in Alabama.
They still happen.
A license does not an expert make.
I would speculate that boat operator circled around way too fast, did not put prop in neutral and then slammed into girls. Sad, needles accident. (Teens driving??)
A mate in Delaware just two weeks ago was killed by cutting a lobster line from the boats’ propeller; the Captain put it in gear apparently, during the operation and cracked the guy on the head with an eight ton boat. Bye, bye.
“Sad, needles accident. (Teens driving??) “
16 yr old was driving the boat. Had a license.
Spent a few years working on Lake Powell.
Once went a month with a medi-vac a day.
Almost all teenagers
Almost all involved alcohol.
The police in the video said alcohol wasn’t involved in this tragedy. Looks like it was just youth and inexperience.
When tubing, are there two required to be in the boat as in water skiing? So that there is a driver and a spotter on the boat.
I’m 58 years old, try to slalom ski at least twice a week, and I am constantly amazed by the idiotic crap I see people do on the water. After 40 years of being a water hound I believe I’ve seen everything a moron can do in control of of a watercraft.
I recently taught my wife how to drive our new Malibu LXI and on her first attempt to pull me some idiot charged into our area pulling two tubers and turned right in front of her. luckily for me that when she yanked the throttle back to keep from running over the tubers I had not yet started cutting hard yet, and luckily for those two tubers she was paying attention.
There are some real idiots out there and generally the idiots are the first ones to drink and drive a boat.
The video said that there were two in the boat and two riding the tube. All were 15-16 yrs old and friends.
The two on the tube had fallen off and were hit by the prop. The kid piloting had a license but at that age you can figure there was a lack of experience.
And yes, a driver and a spotter are required in every state that I am aware of. But to confess,my buddy and I skied without a spotter about a month ago on an empty lake after a heavy rain. Don’t like to break the law but sometimes a slalom skier has to do what a slalom skier has to do.
Been there, done that and you're an accident waiting to happen..............But hey, do whatcha gotta do.....
Here in SoCal boaters seem to head for ‘the River’, the Colorado. Crowds plus alcohol plus 100 degree weather, always a recipe for success. One year a neighbor of mine was docked near a flotilla of porn stars.
I had a customer who often took his family to the river. Wealthy folks with all the best toys. The grandad was giving his young grandson a ride on a jetski and collided with something, and the kid was killed. I don’t recall all the details but alcohol, crowded conditions and speed was involved.
A real tragedy for everyone involved, not just the families of the girls who were killed and injured (obviously), but also for the two girls in the boat. They'll have to live with this for the rest of their lives.
Kentucky law states that persons being towed on any device must wear a Type I, II or III PFD (Personal Flotation Device). Further, the law requires in addition to the operator of the boat, an observer 12 years of age or older - or - a wide angle rear view mirror mounted so as to let the operator check on the skier but still give full attention to traffic ahead of him. The primary responsibility of the operator is to watch for oncoming traffic and not to be looking at the skier.
“And yes, a driver and a spotter are required in every state that I am aware of”
Scratch Texas and Florida
Absolutely. It’s their friend who was killed. That’s a tough burden to carry.
its Bush’s fault
time for this freaken federal gub mint to step in and ban tubing and boating?
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