Something is wrong. On the Ebay Listing it says it did not sink. Here is that sites story. It doesn't add up to me. Not many pics work anymore. ARGH
Michael Yost of Las Vegas says he made a wrong turn on Lake Mead, causing his speedboat to run aground.
By Tanya Flanagan
Review-Journal
The owner of a luxury speedboat told National Park Service rangers Tuesday that a wrong turn on Lake Mead caused the boat to slam into the shore, killing four people and injuring three others.
Michael Yost, 44, said he was driving his 47-foot Fountain about midnight Sunday when he made the fatal turn and crashed at Burro Point, six miles north of Hoover Dam on the Arizona side of the lake. The wrecked boat was discovered at 9:53 a.m. Monday by a passing boater.
Yost, owner of Yost Studios, a hair salon on East Flamingo Road, was in fair condition Tuesday at University Medical Center.
Ronald Surls, 27, also was in fair condition, and Richard Reynierse, 24, remained in serious condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Eugene C. Cason III, 27 of North Las Vegas, Michael J. Kelley, 26, of Las Vegas, Pearl Ewens, 47, of Henderson and Yost's wife, Camille, 41, of Henderson were killed.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area rangers spent much of Tuesday scouring the shoreline for clues. By examining debris, they estimated the boat was traveling more than 50 mph when the accident happened.
Three of the four bodies were found floating in the water, and the other body and the three survivors were in the boat, park service spokeswoman Karen Whitney said.
At nearby Lake Mead Marina, less than eight hours before the crash, Nevada Division of Wildlife personnel arrested Aaron Niquette, 25, of Las Vegas on a charge of operating Yost's boat while under the influence of alcohol.
Niquette was given two blood-alcohol tests with results of 0.12 and 0.10 percent respectively, reported game warden Karen Welden. The legal limit for operating a boat is 0.10 percent.
He was taken to the Clark County Detention Center and booked on a charge of operating a boat while under the influence of alcohol. He also was booked on a hit-and-run charge after another boat in the marina was struck, Welden reported.
Whitney said officials took the necessary precautions to ensure the boat was safely operated.
"We didn't test a bunch of people and let them go," she said. "Everyone pointed to this one young man, and they (wildlife officials) did a field sobriety test on him and he passed the test with flying colors. And there was no smell of alcohol on him, so we said, 'OK, you can take over the boat.'
"If everybody had been drunk, they would have docked the boat and sent everybody home. It's just going to be hard to tie an OUI (operating under the influence) into this," she said.
Whitney said the park service likely would not pursue the alcohol angle when determining the cause of the wreck.
"We didn't take any blood or ask for any because it was 10 hours after the accident (when the victims were found)," she said. "There wouldn't be any way of indicating whether alcohol was a factor because of a time lag."
Pat Bodin, co-owner of Drew's Dam Divers, said she saw Yost's boat, christened "Underestimated," as it pulled out of the marina.
"The guy who was driving ... almost hit a couple of boats and then he went through the scuba part," which is a restricted area, Bodin said.
She described the people on the boat as "a real spectacle." Bodin said she did not file a report with the park service.
Greg Poots, a salesman at Elite Marine where Yost purchased the $374,000 speedboat in June, said Yost was very familiar with the lake.
"That guy (Yost) knows the lake and has taken that boat to Catalina and to Lake Havasu. This guy knows the lake, but you can talk to people who have lived out here 30 years and they know that the lake changes."
Yost also owns a houseboat he keeps at Callville Bay, Whitney said.
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