McDowell managed to turn his Ride The Ducks boat business into a lucrative one before selling it in 2004.
Since then, Ride The Ducks, through its various corporate iterations, has been linked to several high-profile accidents, including last week’s horrific one that devastated an entire community.
There's something wrong with this.
Last night the local PBS station was showing a special on some of the great American engineering marvels, such as the Erie Canal, some of the great bridges and tunnels, and such. It was remarkable how many of them were designed by passionate amateurs.
Now I look at this story. This guy hasn't been involved with the company in question in 14 years. The story notes that the record of incidents started filing in AFTER he sold it. So it looks to me like they didn't know how to operate his boats more than any failure of engineering.
But hey, it's not like we have a credential inflation problem in this country already making it harder to find work. /sarc