We obtained an accident report that not only reveals what went wrong, but also who was at the controls of the boat at the time.
For the first time Thursday, CBS 2's Sabrina Franza got in touch with the captain of the boat involved that day.
We learned more about his role in the tragedy – and more of what really happened before a woman's feet were severed by a boat propeller on Saturday, Aug. 13. Our search for the captain started with a Freedom of Information Act request – which reveals his name, and landed us at his office. His name is Joseph I. Neverauskas, and he is the senior vice president of a large real estate investment firm – Equus Capital Partners.He was at his office when the staff let our crew inside.
Neverauskas told us that the U.S. Coast Guard, who were on the scene that day, asked him not to speak about the investigation – and he asked us not to interview him on camera.Neverauskas confirmed what we already knew – he captained the boat that backed into two women swimming inside the densely-crowded boating area in Lake Michigan known as the Playpen.
He had a license, but did not own the boat he was skippering – information we learned from an eight-page, detailed internal investigation by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
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