UPDATED: 4 Injured In Boat Explosion!

The worst part about this is some of the inane answers on the web site about not running their blower being the cause of the explosion. Typically, inserting the nozzle into the gas hose breaks free the connection or causes a leak down the outside of the hose. The hull then fills with gas and congregates in the bilge. Often the gas vapor actually exceeds the Upper Explosive Limit- UEL- then turning on the blower lowers into the explosive range. So turning on the blower is not the final answer. One has to look in the bilge and around the fuel hose to see if the fuel was leaking. Thinking that turning on your blower is the answer is incorrect and unsafe. You have to sniff and look.
 
It wouldn't surprise me that they might have put the fuel nozzle into a flush mounted rod holder and "filled" all of their newly purchase fuel into the bilge.

Wouldn't be the first time...

Glad no one was killed.
 
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