- Boat driver Robert ‘Bob’ Williams, 66, was one of the 17 people who died on the Ride the Ducks boat
- Nine of the people who died were from the same family from Indianapolis but they have not yet been named
- Two members of the same family survived the tragic accident, the Governor’s office confirmed
- Couple Bill Asher and Rose Hamman were among those killed, as was hero grandmother Leslie Dennison
- Leslie was on the boat with her 12-year-old granddaughter, who says the woman died saving her life
- The mother of a girl who survived says passengers were being ‘sucked’ back into the lake by the sinking boat
- The Ride the Ducks boat capsized on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri, on Thursday at 7pm
- The boat was carrying 31 people when aggressive storms rolled over the area and thrashed the water
- Eleven people were pulled dead from the water on Friday night and seven were taken to the hospital
- On Friday morning, another six bodies were pulled from the water including three belonging to children
- Passengers on other boats on the water filmed harrowing footage of the boat being overpowered by waves
- The National Weather Service issued a severe storm warning at 6.30pm on Thursday, 30 minutes earlier
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I liked this but not because of the loss of life.
It reminded me of a fully laden duck sinking in Dublin.
No one died but nearly all got a belly full of River Liffey and suffered the ‘usual’ effects aka up-chucking!!!
Some locals pointing out to the media that the River was well contaminated with recycled Guinness!
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They’re basically a floating 2 1/2 ton truck, so not the most seaworthy of crafts. I think they required a great deal of modification and rigging to get them to work for the military.
I’ve passed them a few places, but it never seemed like a great idea to ride in one.
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