My father-in-law and i put in right behind those dudes on Sun. morning and was only seconds behind them,as he was going down the right hand turn after the launch he was flying into the head of that corner at about 20-25 mph and when we entered the top of the turn he had already struck the trees just seconds before in that sweeping right-hander, we did not notice the actual impact as we were just seconds from entering, at that moment my father-in-law did comment that he thought he was entering that turn a bit to hot, i noticed coolers and debris pitched into water at the exact spot of impact but it did not register in my head as it was still alittle early and was still working off a long night, but then i saw 2 guys laying in the trees, and then my f-in-law yelled out "that guy punched the tree's look for his passengers", there was so much sh$t in the water it was hard to distinguish and we only saw two guys at first and knew there were at least 4 on board so we jammed down to see if we could find anyone we saw 1 guy climbing onto the bank just before the faster water, but if there would have been 1 more he would have gotton sucked in that swirling mess, or was stuck under the boat, Hook-em-Up guide service must have got to see the whole thing as i think they were fishing that 1st hole and was already motoring up to the scene, we could not see the 4th pass, and headed back up to ask for a head count and all were on the bank i guess we did not see one of the guys who was pitched into the trees. we picked up the guy who was about 50 yards down and was pretty shaken-up then picked up the other 3 and gave them a ride back up to the launch, the driver just said the bottom just slid out from underneath him and wham-o, you should have the chunks that were torn into those trees, his hand was cut pretty severely, those guy's were very lucky!!! What a way to start Morning!!
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Semper Fi
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