Are their any plans to bring up the boat ?

[funkcity]

Are their any plans to bring up the boat, motors,drives and misc parts ?
If nothing else, it would be good to know for the future safety of hot boaters everywhere.

[Richard Cranium]

Due to the depth, it's probably not only too expensive, it's too dangerous. Probably not worth risking additional lives.

[Craig]

Given the tragic loss of life, I'm surprised they're not going to try and recover the boat to try and see if they can determine what went wrong. I know it'd probably be a hardhat dive at that depth, but once they mobilize hard hat equipment and personnel they can work for quite a while at 240'. Is there any other danger related to the actual geographical characteristics of that lake bottom?
Craig

[Richard Cranium]

Who's going to pay for it? You're talking about big bucks for a recovery of machinery from that depth.

[RiverDave2]

They would typically raise it just to find out what happened, but being that the motors and drives (or so I read) were ripped from the boat, I don't know if they will or not.
RD

[77charger]

i think the isurance co. will want to raise the boat before paying out any claim.200k is alot to pay out for a boat and will try to find a way to deny the claim based on the capable speeds and hp.just my thoughts.

[Richard Cranium]

You're right about the insurance CO. They had to recover a boat of mine that went to the bottom before they'd pay a cent. If anyone has the deep pockets to do it, they do. Their #1 goal always seems to be, spend $2 to avoid paying $1. With the ammount of litigation that could be involved though, they may spend a small forturne to attempt recovery.
[This message has been edited by Richard Cranium (edited January 22, 2002).]

[step up]

Who's to say the boat is insuried as far as i know their is no plans to recover the boat.

[Racing Ray]

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[Tinkerboater]

How much could it cost to use one of those ROV's to run a cable down and hook it to the front hook on the boat or around something on the motors.