> Let's allow the investigation to continue This is a strawman - no one is calling for ending the investigation prematurely. > before rushing to judgement. H

> Let's allow the investigation to continue This is a strawman - no one is calling for ending the investigation prematurely. > before rushing to judgement. How soon is too soon to "rush" to judgement that these boats are unsafe? The NTSB report regarding the 1999 Arkansas sinking [0] noted problems with their lack of reserve buoyancy. Certainly weather played a factor in the Missouri sinking, but so did the design flaw that causes it to sink or capsize much more easily than a modern boat of equivalent size. That design flaw has been known publicly for almost 20 years. The passengers who drowned in the Missouri sinking weren't wearing life jackets. [1] The 1999 NTSB report recommended removing the canopies of these boats, but if the canopies couldn't be removed, then they recommended not using life jackets. And the main subject of the article is the crash from 3 years ago in Seattle. That happened on land, caused by a broken axle. [2] It turns out the person who designed the "stretch" duck boats didn't have any formal engineering training, and it's not a huge step to imagine that stretching a vehicle in that way could lead to increased stress on the axle. This isn't rushing to judgement. This is understanding the context of decades of previous incidents for better insight into the most recent one. 0: https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NTSB_Determines_Cause_of_1999_Duck_Boat_Sinking.aspx https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NTSB_Determin... 1: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/22/us/missouri-duck-boat-tragedy-life-jackets/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/22/us/missouri-duck-boat-tragedy... 2: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/ntsb-ruling-expected-today-on-cause-of-ride-the-ducks-crash/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/ntsb-ruling-expect...