National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy welcomed much-needed maritime safety improvements included as provisions in the $858 billion annual defense spending bill, which President Biden signed into law Friday….
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a Coast Guard reauthorization bill that includes policies to improve the safety of World War II-era amphibious DUKW boats, commonly referred to as…
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A federal judge has dismissed charges of misconduct and neglect against three employees in a fatal duck boat accident on a Missouri lake not considered a navigable waterway.
U.S. District Judge Douglas Harpool last week adopted a recommendation that the government did not have admiralty jurisdiction over Table Rock Lake where Stretch Duck 7 sank in 2018 killing 17 people — the deadliest duck boat accident ever.
Capt. Kenneth Scott McKee, general manager Curtis Lanham and operations supervisor...
Kansas City National Public Radio station KCUR reported Friday that U.S. Magistrate Judge David P. Rush has recommended that federal criminal charges be dismissed against three men indicted in relation to the 2018 sinking of a duck boat in Branson, Missouri, that killed 17 people.
The boat’s captain Kenneth Scott McKee was indicted in November 2018 on charges of misconduct, negligence, or inattention to duty by a ship’s officer, resulting in the death of another person. McKee was charged with...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) faulted the operator of the duck boat and the Coast Guard for the sinking that killed 17 people near Branson, Mo., in 2018 — the deadliest duck boat accident ever.
Ripley Entertainment Inc. continued operating the water part of its tour after a severe thunderstorm warning had been issued for Table Rock Lake, the NTSB said at a virtual meeting Tuesday. And the Coast Guard contributed to the accident by not requiring sufficient reserve buoyancy and...
The operator of a Branson, Missouri duck boat failed to heed a severe thunderstorm warning before the fatal sinking of the Stretch Duck 7 during severe weather in July 2018, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. The World War II-era amphibious duck boat sank July 19, 2018 during a...
The Coast Guard wants duck boat operators to remove canopies, side curtains and overhead framing to help passengers and crew escape in an emergency.
The recommendation issued Wednesday is based on preliminary findings in the Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) looking into a duck boat sinking that killed 17 people near Branson, Mo., in 2018 — the deadliest duck boat accident ever. The Coast Guard also said it will consider further safety measures for duck boats at the end of the...
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The Coast Guard is examining all Subchapter T vessels following September’s fatal dive boat fire in California, an officer told a congressional hearing last week.
Rear Adm. Richard Timme, Coast Guard assistant commandant for prevention policy, said he created a task force to inspect the vessels and suggest any needed safety changes. “That includes relooking at the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) recommendations,” he said. Timme testified Nov. 14 before the House Transportation and...
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The National Transportation Safety Board is faulting the U.S. Coast Guard for failing to implement previous-issued safety recommendations related to the operation of so-called “duck boats” as a contributing factor in the high death toll of last year’s fatal duck boat sinking on Table Rock Lake,...
A federal grand jury has indicted two supervisors on charges of misconduct and neglect in the Missouri duck boat accident that killed 17 people — the deadliest duck boat accident ever.
Curtis Lanham, 36, general manager at Ride the Ducks Branson, and Charles Baltzell, 76, the operations supervisor, were named in a superseding 47-count indictment unsealed late last week (to access the indictment, scroll down to the far left corner of the release) that includes Capt. Kenneth Scott McKee, 52,...