Boat sucked thru dam
 

prob a Repost, but

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnkO0MCJ-k4[/YOUTUBE]

Beer does wonderful things.

I guess the invisible part didnt work:ernaehrung004:

That happened in Austin a while back. While I feel bad for their loss, their "tragedy" is their own fault.

how scary would that have been? jeese...

tragedy? it was a old boat

AUSTIN, Texas, March 10, 2005

Dirk Hoekstra's newly refitted boat, which once belonged to his dad, is in shambles, but the Austin, Texas, man doesn't mind.

Ironically, Hoekstra says, he had "just revamped this old '68 boat of mine, a boat my dad built. And I recovered it, and everything was brand new, tiptop shape."

As he was approaching the dock to load the boat onto a trailer, "They had the dam open, and the current was so strong with the northwest wind it just -- we threw out anchor and were waiting for our trailer to pull up," and the current pulled the boat toward the dam.

Hoekstra says the boat's motor had been working, but he turned it off while they were anchored and, "When I went to turn the motor back on, it was dead."

Asked by Smith what he was thinking as the boat drifted toward the dam, he quipped, "This motor better start working really fast!

"Then I tried to put on an electric motor really fast," but there wasn't time. "We crossed the danger buoys. I couldn't grab them. I missed them by five feet, and I basically tried to get us alongside the floodgates on the opposite side, but it ended up whipping us around and slamming the back of the boat into the gate."

By then, onlookers had sent help, and rescuers got Barnes to safety.

But Hoekstra was still very much in trouble, and soon, in the soup, and his boat, a goner.

Smith wondered whether Hoekstra thought the end was at hand as he got sucked under the dam, and Hoekstra deadpanned, "Yeah, that crossed my mind.

wow I bet his undies were brown after:hitfan: art

that would look cool on a gps track :eek: :D:

I never liked hanging out near dams, always gave me a case of the willys.
Now I have a visual to go on. yikes!

dam!

Yet one more reason to never go lake boating! Damn I'm glad I live where we have real water....

This Summer while they had that flood gate open they have now closed off the lake about a mile or so from the dam. Up to this accident they never closed any part of the lake when they had only 1 flood gate open

My main boating body of water is between two big hydro dams. So this is always on my mind. At least my visual nightmare has another visual comfort, our marker buoys support a rescue net across the river length and set up well away from the actual dam. :cool:

wow

He was stripped naked by the water.
 

He wound up in the river below the dam, was uninjured, and was stark naked when the water pulled all of his clothes off. His girlfriend was lifted to safety.

I live about 1/2 mile above the dam, and cross below it everyday. Tom Miller Dam is on Lake Austin Blvd. Do a Google maps, aerial view to get a lay of the land. It is a full 60 foot drop.

There was a James Bond? movie that had a boat go over the dam in a crash scene. I think it was a Glastron. I don't remember which movie.