Glad everyone was o.k. ....

WoW hope very one is alright!

From what I heard it is in the ship channel in 50+ feet of water. Not sure is they will get it or not.

If you have any experience running across big tug wakes at all you'll understand there is no such thing as casual 3-4's. Tug wakes have busted up many a boat and if not the boat, then the driver and/or passenger. They are notorious for being deceiving. There are a series of very large, steep, and deep wake caps that when you leave the water and come down across one amidship, it will crack your back flat water or not. Sea state is irrelevant. If you can imagine a boat lifting off pointing upwards, then on the way down the heaviest part comes down across the front side of a wave while the bow gets basically whipped downward as it is sticking up across the crest. The G-force must've been tremendous to have snapped, especially, a new boat. Of course right now perspective is speculative only.

I run across these behemoths all summer long and have learned respect the hard way and watched the lack thereof many times. As best I can "if" I'm gonna keep motoring across the impending series of multiple wake crests and not just stop and lob over them, I'll swing very wide and go back behind the tug as far as I can to reduce the wake sizes, then trim it level, slowing to a reasonable speed before pounding across it. It still will hammer your teeth out. Many times I see what looks like massive sunami's and just stop, point my bow into it and hold the heck on.

Don't under-estimate the power of the tug wake and the stress put on a "fiberglass" hull that tries to take it head on. Most of the time you will survive. But there are times you won't. I'd like to hear the driver's perspective, it sounded like there was too much trim going across that flipped the nose up like that. Typically it's hard for mine to flip up the nose like that, becuase the balance of these boats are so good.

BTW, I'm very glad to hear the driver appeared to escape without serious injury.

Damn wake chasers. Almost as bad as SeaDoo's. I'm glad everyone made it home.

Anyone know what year, hull, power this boat was? That is some scary chit. I don't see how the boat could of sunk so fast without hitting something in the water or something. I have seen race boats disentegrate off a stuff but usually they are going alot faster in churned up big water not off a wake (they are also usually older hulls with some pounding under thier belt)

I think its an 04. I know it had twin 496HO's.

What do those pictures have to do with the Sunsation accident CMG?

I'm guessing that is an older race boat he was talking about. Is the owner of the Sunsation a member of the boards?