BS: Really, really bad Duck day in Philly

Subject: BS: Really, really bad Duck day in Philly
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Jul 10 - 04:57 PM

A barge being towed ploughed into a disabled Duck, an amphibious tourist vehicle, tossing all into the Delaware and killing two Hungarian teenage members of a tour group... seems the Duck driver had called for help and since help was on the way, didn't send out a general distress signal, so the tugboat didn't know they were stuck rather than moving and maneuverable.

One Google search.

Subject: RE: BS: Really, really bad Duck day in Philly
From: Noreen
Date: 09 Jul 10 - 05:32 PM

DUKW

Subject: RE: BS: Really, really bad Duck day in Philly
From: Joe_F
Date: 09 Jul 10 - 08:11 PM

I am happy to say that the Boston Duck Tour people are not worried. I have been on a couple of their tours.

An amusement not provided by such tourist services is that you can go surfing in them. Climb up the back of a breaking wave, hook your front wheels over the top, and ride it in. It deposits you on the beach, and you can drive on up. There is a chapter in Bascom's _Waves and Beaches_ in which he describes doing that, for research purposes, in northern California surf (30-ft waves). Not a dull page in it.

Tho they were developed for military use, their utility for rescue was recognized from the beginning. They must have saved a lot of lives.

Subject: RE: BS: Really, really bad Duck day in Philly
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Jul 10 - 05:15 PM

They've found the second body, so that's something...