Please be careful on the water - boat accidents

[SuperDave336]

Both accidents today.



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[bugman]

I fish lake of the ozarks and it's crazy the size and speed of these boats these days we have our fair share of accidents i'm just surprised there's not even more that place is crazy dangerous during the summer months....

[BobC]

Spring is probably the worst in that a lot of guys haven’t been out in a long time and are careless. Alcohol takes over as the weather warms up.
Bob

[Ketchn]

our lakes have zero alcohol program , you get ketched drinking and operating a boat and it is a very sad experience , they treat the same as a dwi on the road.
and to be sure most if not all the fast boat operators are nowhere near good enough to own and operate such a vessel.
When I was young one ,we ran lots of water craft and even way back then it was amazing the amount of stupidity exhibited by people operating boats.
My dad was big on boating rules and I was 13 before I was even allowed to operate one solo .
I almost lost my life when I was about 10 on a homemade board we designed to pull behind one of our larger vessels , It had a rope on the front to hold onto and I leaned too far forward and it dove with me still holding on ! As I swam to the surface another boat ran over the top of me when I was about 2 feet from the surface , he cut my tow rope and had no clue I was even in the water .
It is really a good thing my dad was more concerned with my well being at that moment in time for sure or we would have been in the newspapers the following day about the guy some other guy killed on the Big Lehigh River in an argument ....not even kidding
p.s. to this day I remember how surreal it was watching that prop wash go by that fast ,right above my head

[SuperDave336]

Glad it missed, that could have damaged the prop. Jokes aside that could have been bad. Glad you weren't hurt. Sounds like he was following way to close as well as not paying attention.

Both of these accidents involved tournament anglers.

[silverroach]

Amen, to begin careful. A bass tournament angler friend and I were seeing these reports yesterday also.
He has an app that reports boating incidents as they are reported. He stated that they are occurring way more than usual.
He told me two weeks ago he was pleasure fishing with his wife but the lake in Alabama he was fishing was holding a tournament in which the boats had a judge in each boat. They saw one of the anglers that was in the tournament run between the shoreline and my friend and his wife fishing and he was disqualified from the tournament for the unsafe act.
But we can all expect to get checked by game wardens more often especially if folks are becoming less safe on the water. As it should be. Remember respect others and be safe.


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[ACAMS]

As I swam to the surface another boat ran over the top of me when I was about 2 feet from the surface , he cut my tow rope and had no clue I was even in the water .

Good thing you didn't have a life jacket on!

[Grainraiser]

I'm always baffled as to why folks want to go fast on the water. I'm a member of a jon boat forum and i'm constantly getting into with young guys want to put a 40hp outboard on a 12ft jon boat. I tell them get a bigger hull if you want to go with a larger motor but i'm attacked by guys who say no guts no glory. These same guys who will spend gobs of money for pods, new props and building up the transom to hold larger motors when geting a larger boat would accomplish what the want for a cheaper price. The need for speed on the water creates a danger to everyone on the water.

[justinp61]

It's sad to read stuff like this. Fast boats are like fast cars, just because you can afford one doesn't mean you have the skill to drive it to its potential.

[silverroach]

I'm always baffled as to why folks want to go fast on the water. I'm a member of a jon boat forum and i'm constantly getting into with young guys want to put a 40hp outboard on a 12ft jon boat. I tell them get a bigger hull if you want to go with a larger motor but i'm attacked by guys who say no guts no glory. These same guys who will spend gobs of money for pods, new props and building up the transom to hold larger motors when geting a larger boat would accomplish what the want for a cheaper price. The need for speed on the water creates a danger to everyone on the water.

You have to understand the younger folks a bit better. First they live in an instant world. They don’t think they have time to wait. Second we use to think spending one hundred dollars was a lot. That’s to them is like when we use to spend a dime. They’ve never bought gas for thirty five cents a gallon like we did.
They also go fishing but making sure they have time for all the other activities in their lives. So it’s essential to get from point A to point B faster than everyone else. So by all means don’t get in their way.
Finally, they don’t fish for pleasure, I really don’t know what they fish for other than going fast and listening to load music. Hope this helps make some sense. It still doesn’t to me and I have grown kids and teenaged grandkids.


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