Where'd the the Gawd dam cruiser go that causes all these cat flips? It get edited outta the video?
Prob same one that took Myway out, me thinks he did the loop got off course and ended up in havasu.

looks to me like the guy in the far right that put the sticks down the last 30 seconds and was hauling the mail out in front of everyone over steered and cut in front of the other 3 boats and that when the dcb caught his prop wash..the last 5 seconds it looks like where he made his move and cut in front of the dcb..

Couple things:

Electronics go crazy when they get wet. I saw a #6 boat sink at the dock, when raised, tabs, drives were all over the place. As soon as the power was turned back on, trim motors were running.

99% of OSO has never been as fast as this guy was going nor been in a pinch when the pack starts to turn. He obviously wasn't willing to turn that hard at that speed and paid the price. I can only imagine how fast this happened. See the need turn... Consider speed... Too fast...ridding a rooster tail. All in a matter of seconds.

No matter how you put it, it's out of control.

Random late night thought... If someone is driving ANYTHING faster than his skills, faster than the conditions and faster than the equipment can handle, it's called reckless driving. Shouldn;t it really be called "wreckmore" driving??

+1

Seems like a very probable reason for the DCB shifting to the right, IMO. Open water? Really? Far from being a closed course. The results speak for themselves.

Do you only ride that dirt bike hard on a closed course?

When it start to rise bow too much its packed all time more air.
Also when bow rise props start push also boat upwards.
Its like a snowball efect..

Wow---Glad all on board are O.K.


[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zyMO30Clts[/YOUTUBE]

Looks like a combination of the course turning slightlyleft along with the oncoming traffic caused the guy that flipped to over react and rather than turn slightly to the left and stay in his lane decided that the thing to do was cross the other boats wake. Way too close and at way too high of a speed for that move....the thing to do at that point would have been to slow down slightly and stay in his lane....

Have witnessed this scenario regularly at events, but usually occurs at slower speeds (by drivers with much less experience) where all are able to regain control and continue on. It is assumed guys running these numbers have experience and judgement required to avoid getting into that situation of multiple boats' lines coming together.

Skater40 did an excellent job of holding his line and actually dropping out of the frame as things unfolded. I am sure he watched the first DCB take off and begin drifting left and knew there was not enough room left for the rest of the boats over there.
I commend skater40 for not 'going with' that first DCB just to stay with him. He knew the time and place was not right. We all know he has the hp to be there, and by giving other boats plenty of room he prevented this from becoming a multiple boat incident.