Wear your life jacket.
A life jacket would not do much good if the boat sinks quickly in a squall. The hard roof actually traps passengers inside — even if they have life jackets on.
“Wear your life jacket.”
Not inside a Duck boat where all you would do is float to the top and get trapped.
Any captain with any experience, the second a storm was in the area, would have called for all passengers to put on life jackets.
“Wear your life jacket.”
What I understand is the roof created an enclosure where all the windows and doors would not allow someone wearing a life jacket to exit. (too small) also if you were wearing one and the boat sank you would float up to the roof and drown.
The captain told the passengers NOT to put on the life jackets!
This sinking, like many, was a combination of bad weather and bad decisions.
...and take some swimming lessons. Unless the boat owner has $100M in insurance the survivors won’t see much of a settlement. I can just about guess that most duck boat owners aren’t millionaires or anywhere close to it.