Sad Mothers day for somebody on Lake Lanier

Not many details yet. They were at the gas dock when the explosion occurred. Two kids-16 and 13 air lifted to Atl and one woman transported to Atl by Ambulance.

Bennett
 
Turned out better for the three than the other incident that day. Bad luck all around.
"It was the second incident in a day, WSB reported. Earlier on Sunday a 23-year-old man had jumped off a pontoon boat and did not resurface. His body had been recovered."
 
So sad! Luckily the wind blew it away from the gas dock. They weren’t able to rescue the dog.
 
Coming from an outboard, it is way to easy to forget that bilge fan switch. They should feed that switch into the engine start computers and keep them from starting without it engaged.
 
bbwhitejr said:
Not many details yet. They were at the gas dock when the explosion occurred. Two kids-16 and 13 air lifted to Atl and one woman transported to Atl by Ambulance.

Bennett
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Bennett,
Just curious if you've heard any additional detail on this..
 
Turns my stomach, I hate to see this. I was at a marina last week and heard some folks talking about a man who went out fishing 2 days before, never came home, they found the boat, without him, still running. That upset me as well.
 
Windjammer said:
Bennett,
Just curious if you've heard any additional detail on this..
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The two kids that were air lifted to ATL were doing the refueling. Seems they put fuel in the boat and some came out of the vent or spilled into the water. Fueled the jet ski and when the ignition was hit, the water lit up and caused the whole mess. Sounds like the fuel ran over and got all over the boat and when the water lit up, so did the boat. I heard at least the girl is in an induced coma with 2nd-3rd degree burns over 90% of her body. So sad….

Bennett
 
This weekend on a local river in the Delta a jet ski waked a canoe with three young adults. The canoe capsized and only two came to the surface and swam to shore. Major search and rescue was fruitless by dark so it became a recovery mission. None of the three were wearing PFDs and were fishing on a high seventies maybe low eighties day so probably had more than shorts and tee shirts on. Same day some twenty miles up river a swimmer went under never to surface. These waters are coming out of the Sierra snow runoff water shed and are quite chilly. The state spends a lot of money on education and PSAs but these things just keep happening. Sad reality unfortunately.
Carpe Deim
 
Come to find out, the boat was once on my dock. It was a Carver Santiago, maybe a '93-'97 model. It was at our dock for about 3-4 months, an older couple sold it to a younger couple. A very tragic outcome.

Bennett
 
Very tragic indeed.

I just had a memory of a jet ski incident many years back. We were at the marina, tailgating, having fun when we noticed an ambulance pulling in and at the same time a jet ski blew by the docked boats. Of course we were fussing at the jet ski for going to fast. This was not uncommon at the point of the river/water, especially the bass boats flying by.

We later found out there were 2 jets skis, though one did not return. Mom was on the one in front, got waked, fell off, and her son, on the jet ski behind her, ran into her. What we saw was the son racing mom to the ambulance.
 
bbwhitejr said:
The two kids that were air lifted to ATL were doing the refueling. Seems they put fuel in the boat and some came out of the vent or spilled into the water. Fueled the jet ski and when the ignition was hit, the water lit up and caused the whole mess. Sounds like the fuel ran over and got all over the boat and when the water lit up, so did the boat. I heard at least the girl is in an induced coma with 2nd-3rd degree burns over 90% of her body. So sad….

Bennett
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Have any more details of how this happened been released? Just curious what series series of events were that led to this. What a tragedy for this family.
 
Are the vast majority of these explosions / fires the result of a mechanical problem or human error as opposed to some vapors collecting in the bilge? I think probably so. These always get the "should have ran the blower" comments but I would not be surprised to find most of these incidents are more complicated than that.

Edit: Running the blower after fueling is best practice, I am not discounting that or advocating otherwise.
 
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