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North Carolina boat exploded after gas was pumped into fishing rod holder

North Carolina boat exploded after gas was pumped into fishing rod holder | Fox News

Saw that on FB. I can't believe nobody smelled gas LONG before 28 galllons were pumped.

They were disconnecting the battery cables so it wouldn't spark? Gee....not even sure what to say about that one.

Far from the 1st time this has happened but I can never figure out how they never notice that there wasn't a screw on cap on what they thought was the fuel fill when they went to stick the nozzle in .

I sure hope alcohol was involved in this incident... otherwise you have just zero excuse for that

Sorry all you experts but this can and did happen to me minus the explosion. Pulled into a gas station with my old Mako on trailer. I reached up on the gunnel and removed the gas cap, standing on the ground you can reach the gas cap but cannot see it. My son grabbed the fill hose from the gas pump and reached up and stuck it into a rod holder that was appx. a foot away from the fill tube and began pumping fuel. Luckily I stood up on the trailer fender and saw what happened and not much fuel was pumped into the hull. Went back home and washed the fuel out and started over with new procedures for fueling the boat !

Yeah, I don't get the disconnect the batteries thing. I would've been no where near the boat until the gas was diluted and aired out.

You can usually suck through the bilge drain thru-hull, through the bilge pump. This would have been a safe way to extract the gasoline, which could have been done right there at the dock as long has you had a proper fluid extraction pump.

When I was a child my dad filled his '57 Coronado up with 25 gallons of fuel in the bilge. It had twin 18 gallon gas tanks on the sides if the boat. They gas tanks shifted and disconnected the fuel fill from the tank. Once he looked up and saw the amount of gas he stopped and found out what happened. He got is towed in and boat pulled out. Took it to my uncle's garage and dumped as much stuff as they could in the bilge. Luckily with a wife and 3 kids my father was smart enough to get us off the boat and onto my uncle's asap. He got it all fixed that following week and we went boating the next weekend on it. In short filling in the wrong spot can happen, it how you access and handle the mistake that matters. These people not that bright on how they handled it

But this boat was in the water at the marina getting fuel, not on a trailer.

Jeff Williamson, who runs a fishing charter out of Ocean Isle Beach, said he warned the boaters after seeing the sheen of gas on the water.


So the bilge pump put a lot of fuel in the water around them???