Marine Accident/Incident Summary Reports - Anaheim Bay, California, October 28, 1984

摘要

About 0250 on October 28, 1984, the 20.4-foot-long U.S. recreational motorboat WHISKEY RUNNER struck a U.S. Navy mooring buoy in Anaheim Bay, California at a speed of about 30 mph. Of the nine persons onboard the boat, the operator and one passenger were seriously injured, two passengers received minor injuries, and five passengers died. The WHISKEY RUNNER was a total loss; its estimated value was $12,000. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the sinking of the recreational motorboat WHISKEY RUNNER was the significant impairment of the operator by reason of having consumed alcohol and his operation of the boat at excessive speed outside the prescribed channel through a danger zone, which led to a collision with an unlighted, 12-foot-diameter concrete mooring buoy.