Coast Guard to raise Missouri tourist boat after deadly sinking
The U.S. Coast Guard was preparing on Monday to recover the "duck boat" that sank beneath storm-whipped waves in a Missouri lake last week, drowning 17 people in one of the deadliest tourist accidents in the United States in years. After raising the World War Two-style amphibious landing craft from Table Rock Lake outside the popular vacation town of Branson, the Coast Guard said, it will hand boat over to federal investigators. Thirty-one people were aboard the Ride the Ducks boat last Thursday when a sudden, intense storm struck, with ...
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