Nicholas Milligan

We covered the accident earlier at Nicholas Milligan accident and the subsequent MAIB report.

The very basics of the accident were a family of six out for day of boating. They were thinking of stopping, then decided to go one more round of the Camel Estuary. As Nicholas went to the stern to find his sun glasses, his wife, Victoria, took over the controls and did not attach the kill cord. Shortly later as she was turning around to go one more lap, he her husband reached over and turned the wheel sharply as he increased the throttle to help complete the turn before they hit the shore. Some think Nicholas may have slipped during that time and that made the turn and throttle movements more abrupt.

At any rate, all six passengers were ejected from the RIB powered by a 300 horsepower Yamaha outboard which then began to circle on its own in the Circle of Death. Nicholas and Emily were killed, the wife lost part of her leg, and a young boy’s legs were very severely injured. Some or all of those injured suffered propeller injuries.

Nicholas Milligan’s Boat / RIB

Since then the family has raised about a million U.S. dollars for UK charities that provided them assistance. The

Nicholas Milligan family