Survivors recount deadly Missouri duck boat sinking
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — "Grab the baby!"
Those were the last words Tia Coleman recalls her sister-in-law yelling before the tourist boat they were on sank into a Missouri lake, killing 17 people, including nine of Coleman's family members.
A huge wave hit, scattering passengers on the vessel known as a duck boat into Table Rock Lake near Branson, Coleman said, recounting the ordeal from a hospital bed. When the Indianapolis woman came up for air, she was alone. She prayed.
"I said, 'Jesus please keep me, just keep me so I can get to my children,'" Coleman told television station KOLR.
She spotted a rescue boat and swam as fast as she could.