In her message, the mother clarified that “boats, even moving, create a backdraught of exhaust.” “That’s correct.
That’s exactly what I typed: carbon monoxide leaves the boat’s back and immediately returns to the back. At low speeds and in lengthy no-wake zones,
Such as the one we had to traverse to get back to the docks, backseat passengers are particularly at risk. “Open-air carbon monoxide poisoning” is the term for it.
Free said, “We probably didn’t realise that our little Andy, our Dude, was slowly dying that afternoon or evening.” He would have been worn out.
His head would have begun to ache. After a long, physically taxing day of wakeboarding, wake surfing, and tubing, it sounds like too much sun.
“Even if he hadn’t died at the lake, he would have been so badly injured that he probably would have died in his sleep on the way home.
