Posted on 07/21/2018 10:05:05 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
A Higginsville couple celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary. An Illinois grandmother taking her granddaughter on a special trip to Branson.
An Indianapolis youth football coach — “a community legend” — visiting with his family of 11 on vacation, and only two survived.
Seventeen passengers — including four children and a teenager — died Thursday night on Table Rock Lake when the Ride the Ducks boat they were on sank in violent waves and swells of whitecaps, caught in the midst of a severe storm.
Here are the stories of the victims:
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
The truly sad part is they knew. The Duck company knew. The weather service issued severe weather warnings hours before the sinking. Severe thunder storms. High winds a probability. They went anyway.
I’m sure the army of lawyers are already descending on the area.
These are not the first Duck boat drownings. I believe there were some in DC.
I thought they had been outlawed.
I’ve been in stormy waters
on an Arizona lake...
Nothing But Terrifying!
Sad. RIP.
A tragedy to be sure but that doesn’t excuse the media’s insistence on the ‘cold open’ - this time combined with sentence fragments.
This incident is dramatic enough without the cheesy Hollywood style tagline opening.
Editing for content, style and flow seems to be a lost art. Hackery is all that remains.
Well they had a problem with a duck here in Seattle a couple of years ago. Just a wreck on the road, hit a bus or? couple of people injured. Not good boats. I did have an Amphicar back in the 60’s. Better in the water than those ducks. great for dating, “My way or the water”
A stupid question. No life vests nearby each passenger?
good question
I’ve been on 2 duck boat rides
the life vests were under the back bench
Your not required to wear
You’d think they learned something after the Titanic.
Those duck boats seem to have more than their fair share of problems. Why?
So, sad for the families.
Life vests for every passenger on the canopy. One of the survivors was told by the captain they didn’t need them. Any person on a boat should be wearing flotation device. Too difficult to fit all sizes I guess. DUKW boats were horrible as WWII landing craft. Still are!
There were area storm warnings, Topeka, KS had 90 mph straight line winds for 10 minutes cracking trees, while areas nearby had little, and storms with wind and rain was supposed to happen in Kansas City, MO but never transpired.
That storm had winds rolling off the lake area at 60 mph for 10 unfortunate minutes which unfortunately took one of two duck boats down.
The boat in front made it through without going down while the unfortunate boat just behind didn’t.
Philadelphia. A Duck stalled and got hit by a barge. Two or three people died.
Duck boats are trucks that float. Military novelty. Designed for very limited water use.
Life vests on at all times going forwatd.
There has already been a move to ban all duck boats [whatever they are] ... just reading, they seemed to have extraordinarily high mortality rates compared to any other boat.
They're stored above the passengers in the ceiling is what I heard.
I believe they all date to around World War II. Army surplus. That could be a factor.
Life vests are usually a good idea - in this case it may not have mattered if the victims got stuck between the boat and the canopy.
I have ridden this ride (once). Last year.
The life jackets are above your head. I could reach them and still stay seated, I’m fairly-certain.
Most of the boats are white. The one I rode on was white.
There are a couple of orange, green, American-flag boats. Maybe one with American-flag theme.
It would be very, very easy to get trapped by the canopy on a flooded craft. One of my first thoughts after we hit the water was how to escape. It’s just in my nature.
Rumor is they were told to stay in their seats and not don their life vests. (this from one of the survivors). You don’t want a panic with people standing up but gee.....
Still, it seems to me that I could have reached above my head for one. It didn’t seem that far away. But it has been about a year since my ride.
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