As high as it went up on the third bounce they are extremely lucky, for the second time in a month or so, that they are still walking around.
And I did go read some of the stuff about boat wakes. What a bunch of crap. I suppose they would expect the ships, tugs, and barges to go no wake when they are on the water also? I can hear it now, "Hey, I want to go 200 on this river, you all need to slow down to no wake so I can do that".
Ever hear of running a race boat in a race? There is a reason that Geico ran their turbine boat in races and not poker runs.
The article that Matt wrote after their first incident obviously did not sink in at all. Maybe this incident will get them off the water permanently. If you look at the first spinout, supposedly at around 190MPH (but for sure based on witness reports over 160mph), if it had happened about 2 seconds earlier the people in the slow boat they buzzed would all be dead.
Here's how close they were to it being over on this incident. Ask the cat guys who have survived flips how close they were...
