One person drowned Wednesday afternoon after three adults were thrown from a bass boat into the waters of Lake of the Ozarks, near the Gravois Arm. Two of the three were pulled from the water without injury, while the third did not survive, according to preliminary accounts of the incident.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said troopers responded to the 7 Mile Marker near the Gravois Arm, according to Lake Expo. The outlet reported that two people were rescued without injury, while the third person was not recovered from the water at the time of its report, and that a dive team was working to locate and recover the body.
KOMU 8 also reported on the incident, noting that Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop F troopers responded to the 7-mile marker near Gravois Arm after three people fell into the water from a bass boat, and that one adult drowned while two others were rescued without injury, according to KOMU 8.
Towing Crew Helped Stabilize the Boat
Upstream Towing helped bring the bass boat under control after the incident, per the same Lake Expo report. The station's report did not elaborate on what prompted the three adults to go into the water, and the cause of the incident had not yet been released at the time of publication.
Separately, KMBC reported that three adults fell into the water from a boat near Gravois Arm, and that two were rescued and unharmed while the third individual drowned, according to KMBC. That station said no information was available about the victim at the time of its report.
Identities and Cause Remain Unreleased
Authorities had not released identifying information about any of the three people involved in the incident, nor had they released a cause, the Lake Expo report noted. KMBC similarly reported that no details about the victim had been made public as of Wednesday.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol maintains a statewide database of boat injury and fatal incidents and drownings investigated by its Water Patrol Division, though the agency notes that the information posted there is preliminary and does not include incidents investigated by outside agencies, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The patrol separately publishes an annual boating statistics report based on its investigations of recreational boating crashes and accidental drownings across the state, covering fatalities, injuries, and associated factors statewide.
