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Texas party boat capsizes with 53 on board, leaving 1 dead
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Posted on 08/15/2021 12:08:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:08:16 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:10:01 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:11:10 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Tipped over...just like Guam
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:11:17 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: BenLurkin
“The boat, named the Lake Conroe Queen...”
Obviously a gay boat.
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:14:17 PM PDT
by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
To: BobL
Indubitably...
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:19:03 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
I’m guessing the concept of “center of gravity” is something the builder of that boat wasn’t burdened with any knowledge of.
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:19:43 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: Steely Tom
Is there no weather forecasts in that neck of the woods?
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:25:09 PM PDT
by
moovova
(Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:25:31 PM PDT
by
SES1066
(Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:26:51 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
To: Steely Tom
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.”
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:28:06 PM PDT
by
Covenantor
(We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
To: Steely Tom
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.
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:28:52 PM PDT
by
Tailback
To: BenLurkin
Everybody wants to be up top.
You have to look hard on that lake to find places more than 6 feet deep.
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:29:09 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
To: Steely Tom
Nor was the ship builder familiar with the hefty nature of Texas size women.
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:35:00 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
To: Tailback
As a commercial passenger vessel, it has to have a USCG stability letter. 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.
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posted on
08/15/2021 12:50:06 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: Steely Tom
Or the ships owner should have read it and understood the terms passenger limits and freeboard requirements.
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posted on
08/15/2021 1:15:34 PM PDT
by
Tailback
To: DannyTN
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posted on
08/15/2021 1:34:01 PM PDT
by
dljordan
(Slouching towards Woketopia)
To: Tailback
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...
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posted on
08/15/2021 1:35:28 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
To: Roccus
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posted on
08/15/2021 2:15:07 PM PDT
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Tailback
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