ST. LOUIS (AP) – The National Transportation Safety Board says the Coast Guard has repeatedly ignored safety recommendations that could have made tourist duck boats safer and potentially prevented a Missouri accident that killed 17 people.
The NTSB on Wednesday released a “Safety Recommendation Report” on the July 2018 accident, when a Ride the Ducks of Branson boat sank during a sudden and severe storm.
Former World War II amphibious vehicles known as duck boats operate around the country. The NTSB says since an Arkansas duck boat accident killed 13
people in 1999, it has repeatedly urged the Coast Guard to require them to be better able to remain afloat when flooded, and to remove impediments to escape.
Phone and email messages left with the Coast Guard were not immediately
returned.
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