My father sent the video below. My dad is a life long fisherman as well as a mechanical engineer. With that background he offers these observations to boaters...
Always wear your life vest and hook-up the kill switch.
Always keep hand -- or foot -- on throttle – ready to cut power.
When an airborne spinning prop is the first thing that hits the water it is going to run sideways. In this case, for an instant, there is no boat on the water to keep the prop going forward – therefore it makes the boat “swap-ends” – and the only thing that tried to go forward was the driver.
This crash would not have happened – in my opinion -- if the driver would have “cut power” when the boat went airborne.
A lesson to be learned -- remember this when training our young boat drivers – and a reminder for us “old” boat drivers. Don’t be “asleep at the wheel”.
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