Bad accident on the lake today

[pd298 10+ year member]

Today i was at work and a couple of speedboats were involved in a collision..

one of the boats involved was flash gordon, it was a catamaran with twin helicopter turbine engines.

5 people were killed on the spot and 1's condition hasnt been released yet.

They were running 140+ upon collision.

I'll get yall a link.

Click to read more...

 

[pd298 10+ year member]

http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/3812776.html

 

[pd298 10+ year member]

and heres another one.

http://kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=5359911

 

[baseballer1100 5,000+ posts]

Thats nuts.

 

[benvaldi88 10+ year member]

holy shit //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif 140's insanely fast, especially on a boat!

 

[cpierce 5,000+ posts]

Hmm Texoma, I live near Broken Bow lake when I'm not at school

 

[pd298 10+ year member]

and heres what was on cnn.

Boat crash kills 5, hurts 1 on Texas-Oklahoma lake

(CNN) -- A high-speed collision of two jet boats killed five people and critically injured another on a lake on the Texas-Oklahoma border Saturday afternoon, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokeswoman said.

Investigators don't know why the two boats crashed into each other on the Oklahoma side of Lake Texoma, just west of Highway 377, said Oklahoma Trooper Kera Phillippi.

All four people in one of the boats died at the scene, while one of the two people in the second boat died later at Texoma Medical Center in Denison, Texas, Trooper Phillippi said. The lone survivor, a man, was flown by helicopter to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, she said.

Lake Texoma is an 89,000 acre lake on the Red River is shared by Texas and Oklahoma. (Posted 9:49 p.m.)

 

[pd298 10+ year member]

I work on a gas dock and everyone was asking about it all day and it was all over the marine radio.

Its crazy stuff. Flash gordon was the man putting on the poker run so they had to cancel it!

 

[cleanerupper 10+ year member]

zomg 140 on a boat = 300 on land

 

[4runnercrazy 10+ year member]

that sucks

 

[pd298 10+ year member]

zomg 140 on a boat = 300 on land

Yeah, those boats werent even topped out yet.

National Cat, the other boat supposedly runs about 170.

flash gordon is known to run 150ish

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

zomg 140 on a boat = 300 on land

I don't understand....how does that work. If you fly over land or water, the speed in the same. How come if you travel through water it is different. The distance of a mile is the same on land as a mile of water. You travel at a rate either way...explain???

 

[pd298 10+ year member]

Going 40 on a boat feels like 70 in my truck.

see the point?

wind effects on a boat are greater than youd ever feel in a car.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Going 40 on a boat feels like 70 in my truck.
see the point?

wind effects on a boat are greater than youd ever feel in a car.

'feels like' but not actual speed.

 

[cleanerupper 10+ year member]

Yes, "feels like" is correct.