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Originally Posted by SteveA
Yes... the boat that flipped the two kids on the tube did have an observer..... but she seemed to be slow to spot the problem... I watched as she kept trying to point the driver to the spot the kids were floating in... they were real little kids.. low in the water...lots of chop.. my concern was the speed and direction of the approaching jet skiers.
I'm sticking with the Captain Bonehead theory. The guy that swamped me was not paying any attention to anything other than where he wanted to go..
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Like they are REQUIRED to have instead of just the one woman - they would have seen the KIDS sooner! One spotter for each person being towed behind the boat!
UGH! Pains me to hear stories like this! Especially when kids are involved!! Can anyone say - ROLEMODEL!
I guess I don't understand - how they lost these kids in the chop!?! If I am driving - I am keeping my eye on the skier/tuber as well as ahead of me and to the port and starboard as well - so when they drop I spin around and do a big loop to guard them from any boaters. Besides that there is the Arms up rule my kids and any of my guests use when they go down!
Simple rules - really people - simple rules!