Column: Missouri Duck Boat Accident a Tragic Lesson in Bad Judgment

Gavin Fish

Gavin Fish

Published July 25, 2018 4:30 am
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I’ve thought about taking a Duck boat ride and I’m glad I passed.

Thirty-one people including 29 passengers had boarded the Duck boat ride vehicle for a joy ride on Table Rock Lake outside Branson Missouri last week. It became the last ride that 17 of the passengers would ever make.

Torrential weather turned the lake into a rollercoaster ride that became more than the Duck boat could handle. Media clips have shown the stress the World War II type amphibious vehicle and people were under. The raging lake overtook them sending many of them to their watery graves.