The Los Angeles Times reports:
The duck boat that sank in a Missouri lake last week, killing 17 people, was built based on a design by a self-taught entrepreneur who had no engineering training, according to court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
The designer, entrepreneur Robert McDowell, completed only two years of college and had no background, training or certification in mechanics when he came up with the design for "stretch" duck boats more than two decades ago, according to a lawsuit filed over a roadway disaster in Seattle involving a similar duck boat in 2015.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @08:43AM
Stretch Duck-boat? Just like a "stretch limo" or a "stretch swamp buggy", no? Except that the marine environment is far less forgiving of stupid mistakes. So we have stuff like this: https://failblog.cheezburger.com/thereifixedit [cheezburger.com] and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0T7R2JgukM [youtube.com] One of these things is not like the other!