The Missouri duck boat service whose vessel sank in a lake last summer, killing 17 people, will not operate in 2019, the company that owns it says
Duck boat captain in fatal capsizing indicted on 17 felony counts"Due to the ongoing investigations into the tragedy last summer, Branson Ride The Ducks will not operate this season," Suzanne Smagala-Potts, spokeswoman for Ripley Entertainment, said Thursday in an emailed statement.A Ride the Ducks Branson boat sank last July 19 on Table Rock Lake near Branson, Missouri, as a severe thunderstorm whipped up intense winds and waves.
Tourists killed after duck boat capsized 00:58An attorney representing the victims' estates has said the boat's canopy entrapped the passengers and dragged them to the bottom of the lake. The passengers might have survived, the attorney said, if the Branson operators had not ignored a 2002 National Transportation Safety Board recommendation that all duck boat canopies should be removed.Missouri's attorney general is conducting a criminal probe into the tragedy.
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