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Originally Posted by Kamper
Tense error, my bad.
As for the circumstances and responsibility, I'm not involved in the investigation and see no reason to throw my opinion into that ring. A small boat that sinks and needs a crane to get it off the bottom definitly lacks adequate flotation. That's the point of consideration I was raising.
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I never heard that they had to crane the boat off the bottom, I may have missed that part of the story. I heard that it flipped and the woman was trapped on the board under the boat. I certainly could be wrong though.
Some of the airboats do have flotation, I would think that one made solely for rescue should have been outfitted with extra flotation. A Yankee 18 has a payload of 3000lbs, even if that did include the engine/running gear which I believe it does not there should have been enough floatation for 4-5 guys plus a victim without maxing it.
I have done plenty of research into airboats while shopping for myself, I do think that there are other boats in the market that are better suited for this type of work. American Airboats makes a boat with much higher freeboard, they thought the freeboard of a Yankee to not be sufficient enough when I asked them in conversation. Theirs are 29" deep, 5-9" deeper depending on the spot. The 1000 islands airboat have tons of flotation and claim to be unsinkable.