At least 7 dead, 6 injured after dock gangway collapses on Sapelo Island, Georgia

[1srelluc]

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MCINTOSH COUNTY, Ga. (WSAV) – On Saturday, October 19, at approximately 4:30p.m., the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (Georgia DNR), and multiple local, state, and federal agencies, responded to a gangway collapse at the Marsh Landing Dock on Sapelo Island.

The Georgia DNR says at least 20 people went into the water when the gangway collapsed. At this time, there is believed to be seven fatalities and an unknown number of injuries.

7 dead, 8 injured after Sapelo dock collapse - The Current

Seven people died and several others were seriously injured after a ferry ramp collapsed on Georgia's Sapelo Island, a historic Gullah Geechee community.

thecurrentga.org

Mostly elderly folks from what I can gather.

Some were said to have just went straight to the bottom.

 

[JGalt]

I guess the old adage is true about black people being bad swimmers.

Sorry, that's all I could come up with at this moment.

 

[1srelluc]

I guess the old adage is true about black people being bad swimmers.

Sorry, that's all I could come up with at this moment.

That's tame (and true) from many of the comments I read concerning the incident.

One that is sorta telling and a lesson for us all is to teach everyone to swim at an early age.

It was said that the last people saw of some of them was their phones sticking up in the air before they went under.

I get it though, I've stepped into holes in the river when wade-fishing and all I could think of was keeping my fishing pole out of the river.

 

[Hellokitty]

The dock was recently built? DEI construction?

 

[whitehall]

You should be able to survive something like that near shore in relatively shallow relatively warm water.