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for all the comments on operation dry water. it didn't help these two poor souls.
http://www.journalstar.com/news/local/doc4a47d293af158197895459.txt
i missed this whole indecent by minutes. to bad too, cause there weren't many boats on the lake yet and i wished i could have helped. if i'd have been on the south side of the lake, i would have seen it cause there wasn't hardly anyone on the lake yet.. branched oak is a horse shoe shape. the bottom of the horseshoe faces east. the open end to the west, with a north side and a south side of the horseshoe. i was on the north side of center of the horse shoe. the incident on the south side on the center of the horseshoe. i went northeast after i got up from sleeping on my boat at the boat launch on the north side of the center of the horseshoe. i motored ne to the main marina to get cleaned up for the morning. by the time i'd left and i'd gotten to the southeast side of the lake, my first clue that something was a amiss was a sheriff helicopter circling down very close to the water. then the rescue teams started showing up. the whole south side of the inside of the horseshoe got taped off as a crime scene. i've never scene so much law enforcement and rescue vehicles in one place.
from the paper, looks like no pfds and high speed were the culprit. not booze.
a very sad accident to be sure... this is the second accident in two weeks too. last week two fellas got tossed out of their boat because the steering wheel fell off under a high speed turn. both were ejected. the first guy got run over and mostly lost an arm. the other fella inadvertently turned off the ign key with being slammed into the helm from the abrupt turn. then going into the water...
both appear to be high speed accidents... no booze involved...
boater education would go a long way in keeping folks informed about the dangers of boating...
sure hope the last weeks fellas get better soon, and rip to the folks in the red vip that died this weekend... least they were doing what the loved to do...
that was as close as a got to the incident..
http://www.journalstar.com/news/local/doc4a47d293af158197895459.txt
i missed this whole indecent by minutes. to bad too, cause there weren't many boats on the lake yet and i wished i could have helped. if i'd have been on the south side of the lake, i would have seen it cause there wasn't hardly anyone on the lake yet.. branched oak is a horse shoe shape. the bottom of the horseshoe faces east. the open end to the west, with a north side and a south side of the horseshoe. i was on the north side of center of the horse shoe. the incident on the south side on the center of the horseshoe. i went northeast after i got up from sleeping on my boat at the boat launch on the north side of the center of the horseshoe. i motored ne to the main marina to get cleaned up for the morning. by the time i'd left and i'd gotten to the southeast side of the lake, my first clue that something was a amiss was a sheriff helicopter circling down very close to the water. then the rescue teams started showing up. the whole south side of the inside of the horseshoe got taped off as a crime scene. i've never scene so much law enforcement and rescue vehicles in one place.
from the paper, looks like no pfds and high speed were the culprit. not booze.
a very sad accident to be sure... this is the second accident in two weeks too. last week two fellas got tossed out of their boat because the steering wheel fell off under a high speed turn. both were ejected. the first guy got run over and mostly lost an arm. the other fella inadvertently turned off the ign key with being slammed into the helm from the abrupt turn. then going into the water...
both appear to be high speed accidents... no booze involved...
boater education would go a long way in keeping folks informed about the dangers of boating...
sure hope the last weeks fellas get better soon, and rip to the folks in the red vip that died this weekend... least they were doing what the loved to do...
that was as close as a got to the incident..
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, finally either surcoming to exhaustion or the water... man, i feel for them folks familys... had the wife on tv too. man, she looked real sad. said her husband was an avid boater that played by the rules..