Sinking boats, stranded swimmers: Monsoon prompts busy weekend on Lake Havasu ... - Today's News-Herald
The sheriff's department said a boat sank just before 2 p. m. Saturday near the north end of the Bridgewater Channel. , accelerated over a large wave and then "torpedoed" back into the water, causing the boat to submerge and sink, according to a sheriff's department news release. The boat sank completely and was being resurfaced by a local salvage company. Deputies saw a personal watercraft floating just south of the buoy line, and two men and a boy in the water surrounded by 4-foot waves. Deputies said all three were wearing life jackets, and one of the men was holding the boy above his head to keep the child's head over the large waves. Deputies grabbed the child, pulling in board of a patrol boat. Roughly a half-hour later, deputies responded to a report of a capsized boat on Lake Havasu near Standard Wash Cove. The boat, a 1990 20-foot Cole, operated by Guy Ramsden of Los Angeles, had begun to leave the shore as the storm began. Ramsden realized the waves were too large, so he began to turn back around, but as he did so the boat took several large waves over the bow, causing it to sink approximately 15 feet from shore. The boat was later salvaged by a local salvage company. Source: www.havasunews.com
