Normalized Negligence: The Tragedy Aboard Stretch Duck 7

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Coincidentally me and my wife were in line to ride the duck boats that sank. We were in Branson for our honeymoon. My wife was pregnant at the time and we had to leave because she was feeling sick so we left to go eat to help her feel better. We decided to go out shopping instead, both our phones were dead and the last thing our families heard from us was that we were getting on the duck boats. We got back to the hotel room about 2am and finally got our phones charged and was surprised when our phones were overloaded with texts and missed calls. It was at that time we seen on the news on tv what had happened. It was gut wrenching going back the next day and still seeing the vehicles of the families that passed away was parked there with us.

As an experienced boater, I didn't feel comfortable riding one of those things. Out of a family of 9, only 1 survived. She described what it was like coming home to total silence. All of her kids and grandkids were gone.

Seeing the names of the deceased, I realized they were mostly older or very young. How horrifying. For one, this means this was probably a pastime for grandparents to take with their grandkids, and for two, it means that the ones who died were the weakest and most vulnerable. They couldn't fight their way out of the boat.

I'm an aviation student. Safety negligence to this degree is absolutely astonishing to me. An aviation accident of this magnitude would typically result in a phonebook of regulations, recommendations, and many other directives. So many concepts of safety taught to me were mentioned in this video. Thank you for researching and sharing this story. May the victims of this tragedy rest in peace. ❤️

Been to Branson, and my Mom was really wanting to do the Duck boats. We got there, my Brother-in-law took a hard look at them, and said “Nope!” Mom was throwing a bit of a fit, and I’ll never forget him saying, “I don’t want to have to decide which one of you I save when that damn thing flips”— and what he meant was, he didn’t want to watch us drown because he would have saved my sister. My BIL is a great swimmer and surfer, but I am only a mediocre swimmer, and my sister could only manage a dog paddle — and Mom can’t swim at all. We didn’t go. The following year, the accident happened.

Thank you for making this. I was working as a crewmember on the Cleopatra (operated by London Duck Tours) on the 29th September 2013 when it caught fire on the river Thames and we had to abandon into the water. If you ever plan on making a video on that incident and would like to speak to me about it, please feel free to reach out.

I rode a duck boat over 40 years ago in the Wisconsin Dells. Still remember how "off" it felt riding that low in the water, it was like we were always on the verge of sinking, all the time. It messes with your mind and makes you too tense to really relax and enjoy the ride. Also, the darned things couldn't maneuver for crap.

I was actually on the showboat when this happened, absolutely insane. I remember being so disappointed that we didn't get to go out on the water because of the storm and then i saw the duckboat struggling. My heart truly goes out to those who lost their lives. I was hoping the company would be shut down but no of course not... A vacation I'll never forget and a tragedy that everyone needs to remember.

On an item called out in this video, there is a reason airline safety briefings tell the passengers to never inflate their life vest inside the plane. After a water landing, the inflated vest can trap you inside the fuselage. This occurred after the water ditching of a hijacked plane that ran out of fuel. Many passengers on Ethiopean Airlines 961 survived the crash but died because they prematurely inflated their life vests. Kudos to Brick Immortar for another excellent and in-depth video.

I didn't think this could become any more heartbreaking...until you stated that nine victims were from one family. I'm at a loss for words.

Branson area resident here. There are still duck boats active in Branson under a different company. I see them driving around all the time. Why people still get on those things after this tragedy is beyond me.

We did this in Branson, the pto for the prop went out as soon as we hit the water, we drifted towards the show boat and out in the lake with no control. While sitting with life jackets on and all the kids crying I realized it was a death trap with limited space to escape. Terrifies me now knowing the lack of reserve buoyancy. Hearts out to the family for this tragic event.

Here in Seattle we had the ride the duck tours but our family never took a tour as our father was a first sergeant in the USMC, he said back then they weren't safe 30 yrs ago and they had good maintenance there's no way we're getting on one, thank you Dad for possible saving our lives

Per my father (Navy WW2), working at max capacity, the pumps could pull 280 gallons of water a minute out of a flooding DKW. Unfortunately, if the rubber boot on the prop shaft failed, it allowed water to come in at a rate of 360 gallons per minute. Also, these were NEVER intended to have a post-war life; they were considered expendable from the get-go.

Scary to know that our family was supposed to be on the Ducks that fateful weekend. We were held back by a very long timeshare meeting. This is probably the only time a timeshare meeting was actually useful for something, in my eyes.

Even though these things aren't very safe to begin with, the fact that nobody told the last two boats to stop and go back because clearly the weather was bad is ludicrous.

It really hit me when I heard that 9 of the people lost were in the same family. Imagine getting your family together for a fun outing like this, only for this to happen. A few people out their lost so much family all at once. So heartbreaking and avoidable...

I'm glad this wasn't coverage of the Seattle incident a few years back. I was one of the EMT's on that scene and it was not pretty. The bow on those things is like a knife and when the Seattle one hit a greyhound bus, it was at pelvis height for all the passengers on the bus. I still have flashbacks to that day. It was one of the hardest of my career. We did a damn good job on the emergency response, but the maintenance on these vehicles is just impossible to keep up.

I cannot imagine the devastation in the coleman family after that, it's like an entire branch of your family tree was ripped out senselessly, they were all probably on the same side of the boat, the one without egress. From the comments, I just found one a single member of that family did survive, I don't know how to understand this, I would almost think that would be worse, to the the sole survivor than to die with your family, objectively I know that isn't so, but I cannot even begin to fathom the depths of that, I wouldn't know how to keep going, it's horrific and palpable, every day that feeling, I can't even imagine.