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    Nine members of one family among 17 dead as tourist boat capsized

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorJuly 21, 2018No Comments4 Mins Read
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    Missouri boat capsized with nine members of same family among 17 dead
    Missouri boat capsized with nine members of same family among 17 dead
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    Missouri boat capsized with nine members of same family among 17 dead
    Missouri boat capsized with nine members of same family among 17 dead

    The 17 victims who died when a tour boat sank in a Missouri lake on Thursday included nine members of one family, officials in the US state say.

    A surviving relative told US media that the boat’s captain had told the 31 passengers not to put on life jackets.

    The amphibious “duck boat” capsized during a rapidly deteriorating thunderstorm on Table Rock Lake, a popular tourist attraction.

    Missouri Highway Patrol said the ages of the deceased range from one to 70.

    The woman who says she lost nine members of her family has been named as Tia Coleman. She is one of two in her family to have survived.

    Footage posted on social media shows a duck boat battling severe weather on Table Rock Lake
    Footage posted on social media shows a duck boat battling severe weather on Table Rock Lake

    “I lost all my children, I lost my husband, I lost my mother-in-law, I lost my father-in-law, I lost my uncle, I lost my sister-in-law – she was my sister – and I lost my nephew, I’m OK, but this is really hard,” she told Fox News.

    “The captain told us ‘Don’t worry about grabbing the life jackets, you won’t need them,’ so nobody grabbed them because we listened to the captain and he told us to stay seated.

    “However in doing that, when it was time to grab them it was too late. I believe that a lot of people could have been spared.”

    A relative who was not on the boat told WSB-TV that the other member of the family who survived was a boy, the station said in a tweet.

    Channel 2's @CarlWillisWSB confirms that the 9 family members who died in the duck boat accident were from Indianapolis. Carl talked with another family member who wasn't on the boat. He shared this photo with us. The woman on the far left and the boy on the far right survived. pic.twitter.com/gfcXwPg9YH

    — WSB-TV (@wsbtv) July 20, 2018

    The captain was among those who survived. He is now in a hospital.

    – How did the accident unfold? –

    The vessel began taking on water shortly before 19:00 (00:00 GMT) on Thursday.

    Video footage shot by a witness on shore showed two duck boats struggling through choppy waters and spray.

    One of the boats made it to shore but the other was driven back by the wind and eventually overwhelmed.

    Sheriff Doug Rader told reporters he could not say whether passengers were wearing life vests at the time of the capsizing, or if the boat’s windows were open.

    Missouri law requires all children under the age of seven to wear life jackets on boats, unless they are in the “cabin area”.

    Missouri governor Mike Parson (left) and Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader speaking with reporters on Friday
    Missouri governor Mike Parson (left) and Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader speaking with reporters on Friday

    The vessel sank in 40ft (12m) of water before plunging to a final depth of 80ft.

    ‘Placid’ lake

    The vessel was on the water after a weather warning was issued. But the owner of the tour boat company, Jim Pattison, said he had been told by employees that the storm had “came out of basically nowhere”.

    “Usually the lake is very placid and it’s not a long tour, they go in and kind of around an island and back. We had other boats in the water earlier and it had been a great, sort of calm experience,” he said.

    Mr Pattison also said that under Missouri law passengers are not required to wear life jackets.

    The accident happened as thunderstorms rolled through the American Midwest, uprooting trees and felling power lines.

    At the time of the accident, winds reached around 65mph (104 km/h), according to the National Weather Service.

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