Captain steers boat into bushes to avert tragedy

The boat in its crashed position nestled in the bushes just off the Essequibo River bank in the vicinity of Tiger Creek.

A boat captain, en route to the Mazaruni with seven passengers, yesterday opted to steer his jet boat in a clump of riverside bushes, averting what could have been possibly another river tragedy in Region Seven.

The mishap occurred around 5 am yesterday, in the vicinity of Tiger Creek on the left bank of the Essequibo River as the boat,