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Four ladies were rescued on a Texas lake after their rented boat became grounded ... ... teetering atop the lake's dam.
FULL STORY: https://www.statesman.com/story/new...rd-lake-water-rescue-longhorn-dam/7658503002/'It's going to go over': Austin boaters rescued after nearly plunging off Longhorn Dam
Boaters taking an afternoon jaunt on Austin's Lady Bird Lake got dangerously close to plunging off the 36-foot-high Longhorn Dam on Thursday before rescuers arrived.
Emergency responders saved all four passengers who had been stuck in the boat on the edge of the 60-year-old dam that forms the lake from the Colorado River. No one was injured. ...
The boat's four female passengers had rented a boat earlier that afternoon from Retro Boat Rentals, a company that specializes in renting out fiberglass runabout boats from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The boat drifted too close to the dam and did not have enough power in its electric motor to pull away, Brad Smith, an Austin police Lake Patrol officer, told ABC News. The passengers called the boat company for assistance, but Retro Boat Rentals staff members also got stuck on the dam trying to help them.
None of the boat's four passengers were wearing life vests. ...