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There were 4 deaths on 3 of our local lakes this weekend.

In Party Cove (Lake Lewisville) at about 6:00PM Sunday...a 23 year old jumped off a boat and never made it back up...this was about 30 minutes after we left.

On Lake Grapevine...similar story, jumped off and never made it back.

On Eagle Mountain Lake...2 PWC's crashed, 2 dead.

Bad weekend in North Texas

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Current Boat:
2004 Sea Ray 320 Sundancer "Nauti Luvin'"

Previous Boats:
1999 298 Vista "Seas The Day"
2008 H200SS "Nauti Luv"
2006 Tahoe Q4

I had that same thought about towing at 7 pm. Doesn't offer an excuse to either side of course. They also haven't officially charged anyway with hitting her as of today. Only identified a person of interest.

I was only out on Saturday and I was pretty happy with everything on our lake. Pretty quiet and most everyone was behaving. Minus a couple jet skis getting more close than I'd like.

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2005 Horizon 210, 5.7L Volvo

Being in the Coast Guard for 9 years made me more aware than the average boater however, I have some regular friends that I boat with who are all safe and fun to be with, my mindset is be as defensive as you can, scan way ahead, do tube, kneeboard, wakeboard in a really congested area, I saw alot of that this weekend but, Boating is awesome.


Cheers gang,

Mike

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Mike
2007 Horizon 200 SS
5.0 GXi SX drive.

Ugh, jumped off and never came back to the surface? What caused that? Debris down there, currents, or what?

Shame to hear of it.

There's a saying, If you can't set a good example, then at least serve as a horrible warning.

Having taken motorcycle safety classes really changed my outlook on operating vehicles of all kinds. When it's just you on a bike you learn to be constantly on the watch for things likely to kill you. The mnemonic they teach is SIPDE (Scan, Identify, Predict, Decide and Execute). Always been looking for potential issues, identify them, predict what's likely to happen, decide what you'd do about it, then do it. It translates much the same way with boating.

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-Bill Kearney, 2005 348 Vista

We had a run-in with some relatives of the not-so-smart family this weekend when a group decided to stray from the friendly confines of the roped off swimming area into the middle of the lake. They were on floaty chairs, but didn't have life vests in 40' of water, quite a ways from shore.

Us and two other boaters pulled up warning them of the dangers of being in the middle of the lake with all of the traffic. They didn't seem to care until the lake patrol boat pulled up and made them get in his boat.

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-Rob.


Current boat: 2011 Yamaha AR210
Previous boat: 1998 Horizon RX 4.3GL SX

This is the only theory that enables you to drive in Houston...being on the lake is a piece of cake compared to cruising down I-45 - you have a 400 lb woman eating a bucket of chicken going 80mph to the right and hopsing in the fast lane hitting a whopping 37 mph on the left! Boating is easy:)

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08' H210SS
VP 5.7Gi

Ah, isn't D.W.A. such fun... Let me guess, in an Oldsmobile? Extra points if it's an old guy in a hat.

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-Bill Kearney, 2005 348 Vista

what's D.W.A.? u trying to be funny?