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re: Deadly boat accident on Tickfaw River at midnight (2 killed, 6 injured)
Posted on 7/28/24 at 12:38 pm to terriblegreen
Posted on 7/28/24 at 12:38 pm to terriblegreen
Was it two recreational boats? It’s not easy to hit another rec boat at night as there’s so little traffic. Boating at night is really about speed, it’s not very dangerous going slow. It’s dangerous as frick to go fast.
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Posted on 7/28/24 at 12:40 pm to terriblegreen
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Who boats at midnight???
Some people fish for bass at night. Most of the time when I catfished we started at dark and fished until the sun started to come up. Frogging at night is something else we would do.
Not saying that was the case in this incident but lots of people fish at night.
This post was edited on 7/28/24 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 7/28/24 at 12:56 pm to Rize
Driver of the pontoon boat was sober and going to help friends when the center console came around the curve on plane and hit the pontoon boat.
Everyone went in the water and the pontoon boat driver didn’t surface.
His body was just recovered.
A passenger on the pontoon boat died on impact.
Everyone went in the water and the pontoon boat driver didn’t surface.
His body was just recovered.
A passenger on the pontoon boat died on impact.
This post was edited on 7/28/24 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 7/28/24 at 1:00 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
Where did it happen? Near the bridge?
Posted on 7/28/24 at 1:00 pm to OysterPoBoy
In the curve near King’s Point
Posted on 7/28/24 at 1:02 pm to WillFerrellisking
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Not a lic but born before 1984 I believe need to be certified
Should be the other way around. Born after 1984.
Posted on 7/28/24 at 1:36 pm to genuineLSUtiger
It is
Posted on 7/28/24 at 2:04 pm to TJack
25’ sea fox
T top*
20 speakers*
40” LED light bar*
Booze*
5500 RPM*
Idiot******
T top*
20 speakers*
40” LED light bar*
Booze*
5500 RPM*
Idiot******
Posted on 7/28/24 at 2:19 pm to TJack
13 on board and only 2 fatalities with no life vests and a capsized boat is close as you can get to a damn miracle.
Posted on 7/28/24 at 2:30 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
quote:At freaking midnight? I'm not a boater, but I think we may have found the a-hole.
the center console came around the curve on plane
Posted on 7/28/24 at 2:31 pm to Beef Tips
I remember being young and going on boat rides on Lake Verret at night. The guy driving our boat was in his 50s, sober, and an experienced driver but out of nowhere we were hit by some young guys in a boat with no running lights. Scary as shite. I can’t imagine how dangerous it would be on a narrow river.
Posted on 7/28/24 at 2:32 pm to KemoSabe65
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I see boaters navigating many mornings with those damn light bars or q beams blinging other boats and themselves.
Light bars on transoms, multiple green/red lights all over the boat.
Honestly, I prefer the over-lighted boats to the ones with no lights. I sit outside late at night and early in the morning at the camp and I bet every 3rd boat doesn't have a single light on. Sure mixed up nav lights are a hazard but I would rather know a boat is there and have a chance to figure out how it is moving than no lights and the boat just pops up out of the ink on my bow.
Posted on 7/28/24 at 2:41 pm to tokenBoiler
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the center console came around the curve on plane
At freaking midnight? I'm not a boater, but I think we may have found the a-hole.
From WBRZ Article: "Blood was drawn from the operator of the Sea Fox."
Posted on 7/28/24 at 2:43 pm to Rick9Plus
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I remember being young and going on boat rides on Lake Verret at night. The guy driving our boat was in his 50s, sober, and an experienced driver but out of nowhere we were hit by some young guys in a boat with no running lights. Scary as shite. I can’t imagine how dangerous it would be on a narrow river.
This would be my concern. Night cruising actually sounds like a good time. Problem is I'd be too worried about some idiot out there running without lights/too fast.
Posted on 7/28/24 at 3:10 pm to tokenBoiler
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At freaking midnight? I'm not a boater, but I think we may have found the a-hole
Don’t be so quick to judge. You can be on a place at 15-20mph. It was also said in another thread the party barge had no navigation lights on.
Posted on 7/28/24 at 3:15 pm to Beef Tips
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Night cruising actually sounds like a good time.
Especially in the summer it is great. Cool and generally quiet. My wife and I tend to just loaf along at a high idle and stay between the weir and Black River on the Diversion because outside of the turn at Smith Bayou it is all straight and there is plenty of room to stay out of anyone's way. Being protected water it is almost always like glass at night.
Posted on 7/28/24 at 3:20 pm to Beef Tips
The operator of the sea fox will be toast if he is found to have been intoxicated and all his friends that were onboard will no longer be friends. They will drop his arse in a second.
Posted on 7/28/24 at 3:21 pm to terriblegreen
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Who boats at midnight???
I’ve done it plenty of times in the past 40 years.
We’d hang out in the lake all day, go back to the camp and sometimes take a midnight ride to go shine gators.
We never drank and never got over about 10 mph.
There lots of people on the water after dark. Unfortunately many of those people are drunk or very inexperienced operators.
This post was edited on 7/28/24 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 7/28/24 at 3:22 pm to KemoSabe65
I was thinking as soon as I saw Sea Fox.
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