Heart-stopping moment 4 men avoid falling off dam’s crest after boat’s motor fails
- 6 years ago
Four men avoided falling off a dam’s crest after their boat’s motor failed at a reservoir in Uttarakhand, India, on August 14.
The men traveled to the reservoir of the dam to inspect fertilized fish eggs.
Their boat’s motor suffered a mechanical failure, and the men started rowing to try to get to shore.
But officials had opened a few outlet gates and the force of the discharging water started dragging the boat, and the men along with it, towards the dam’s crest.
The desperate men managed to climb onto the iron shutter of the gate just as their boat sank.
The officials of the dam lowered the gate to stop the water discharge, but not before the men spent a few minutes precariously perched over the water in full flow.
As the gate closed, the boat resurfaced and the men bailed out the water and rowed away to safety.
“We had opened the gate only partially as the reservoir was not full,” an official at the dam said. “If not, the boat would have plunged down from a height of 60 feet. They were very lucky indeed.”
The men traveled to the reservoir of the dam to inspect fertilized fish eggs.
Their boat’s motor suffered a mechanical failure, and the men started rowing to try to get to shore.
But officials had opened a few outlet gates and the force of the discharging water started dragging the boat, and the men along with it, towards the dam’s crest.
The desperate men managed to climb onto the iron shutter of the gate just as their boat sank.
The officials of the dam lowered the gate to stop the water discharge, but not before the men spent a few minutes precariously perched over the water in full flow.
As the gate closed, the boat resurfaced and the men bailed out the water and rowed away to safety.
“We had opened the gate only partially as the reservoir was not full,” an official at the dam said. “If not, the boat would have plunged down from a height of 60 feet. They were very lucky indeed.”