Overturning a boat on the lake
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UPDATE: 9:05 p.m
A boat operator who rescued people from the overturned boat says she was in her own boat next to the Wibit outside City Park when she noticed too many people on the second level of the pontoon boat.
Then she noticed the driver take a sharp turn, causing the pontoon to overturn and overturn.
She made sure that the people on the second level of the boat were not hanging off one side of her, and the uneven distribution of the boat’s weight and the hard turn caused it to capsize.
She and her friend took 11 people to safety, docking at the Marina. Then the police arrived for questioning.
Earlier this afternoon, police were seen at the Kelowna Marina Center questioning a group of boaters after their pontoon overturned in Okanagan Lake.
At the scene there appeared to be at least a dozen people on the dock from the boat as police searched for the driver responsible for the hire.
A local security guard who was patrolling the dock at the time told Castanet that the group of people were seen hanging off one side of the boat, which eventually caused it to turn sideways and capsize.
It looks like the boat has already been lifted out of the water with a crane.
No one appears to have been injured.
Castanet has reached out to the RCMP for comment.
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