Posted on 08/15/2021 12:08:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A double-deck party boat on a Texas lake carrying some 50 passengers, including several children, some as young at 18 months old, capsized Saturday night.
Residents along the shore pulled people from the water until rescue crews arrived at the scene.
Video shows a thunderstorm with high winds rolling in on Lake Conroe, located in an unincorporated part of Montgomery County about 54 miles north of Houston, around dusk Saturday, as a party boat with two stories bounces among the waves rising about four to five feet high...
The boat, named the Lake Conroe Queen, flipped onto its side around 8 p.m. – just 40 minutes into planned 90-minute cruise...
Residents at a nearby apartment complex witnessed the boat overturn and jumped in to help pull people from the water until first responders could arrive. Sclider confirmed children were among those pulled from the water, but could not disclose how many or their names and ages at that time.
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Tipped over...just like Guam
“The boat, named the Lake Conroe Queen...”
Obviously a gay boat.
I’m guessing the concept of “center of gravity” is something the builder of that boat wasn’t burdened with any knowledge of.
Is there no weather forecasts in that neck of the woods?
We had a storm “pop up” like that yesterday in Charlotte. We were on the interstate. Couldn’t see 20 feet in front. People pulling over to the side...some just stopping in the middle of the interstate. There were clouds, some lightening/thunder earlier...but nothing to indicate that kind of storm was coming. If we’d been on a boat though, I would’ve been looking for life preservers.
From the pictures it looks to be more of a barge than a boat as it is flat-bottomed. This being the case, it is, with two decks, top heavy and thus unstable in rough water. This is not going to go well for the owners nor for the Captain on the boat.
Prayers for those involved and the person who died.
Masks?
Talk about a shallow draft that capsized “boat” looks more like a raft...”heck, we can add another deck and make twice as much money.”
As a commercial passenger vessel, it has to have a USCG stability letter.
My guess is the crew tried to get to shore but instead of keeping the bow straight on to the swells they panicked and turned broadside.
Everybody wants to be up top.
You have to look hard on that lake to find places more than 6 feet deep.
Nor was the ship builder familiar with the hefty nature of Texas size women.
Maybe the ship's owner should have attached a plastic-coated copy of the USCG's stability letter to the bottom of the boat so the force of gravity could read it.
Or the ships owner should have read it and understood the terms passenger limits and freeboard requirements.
Here come the lawsuits.
Got a feelin’ the wind grabbed the overhead while broadside.
Not sure letter of stability would take that into account.
Been a while since I’ve watched a stability test but I believe it is for static (load) force, not dynamic (wind) force.
But ICBW...
good point
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