How’s this for a sea trial gone wrong?
Last Sunday afternoon the owner of a 1983 Carver 36 filled up the boat at the Mississippi Pub, a riverside restaurant with a fuel dock in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, on the banks of the Mississippi River. A potential buyer climbed on for a sea trial.
The owner started the engines and the boat caught fire and exploded. A fast-thinking fuel dock attendant shut off the breakers at the dock as everyone on the Carver climbed off the burning boat. No one was injured. They untied the boat to get it off the fuel dock and it drifted down the river before it caught on the piling of a swing bridge, setting it on fire. After a while the boat drifted a mile down river, where it sank.
See the video here: http://www.kare11.com/news/no-injuries-in-boat-fire-on-mississippi-river/443804397
