Iowa State crew club president discusses boat's capsizing | News, Sports, Jobs
The Associated Press AMES — The president of Iowa State’s student crew club said winds that had been forecast to remain low picked up suddenly, causing a boat to capsize before the crew could return to shore, killing two crew members last week. Yaakov Ben-David, 20, a sophomore from Washington, D.C., and Derek Nanni, 19, a freshman from Normal, Illinois, drowned in the accident March 28 on Little Wall Lake in Hamilton County. Crew Club President Alexis Aurandt said the forecast that day called for 11-14 mph winds that would gust up to 17 mph later in the morning. The crew’s rules say th...