Teel says she and her husband Harry own four boats, yet she still advocates for more marine patrol officers and stricter law enforcement. The marine patrol should be ticketing people, not just educating them, Teel says. Drunken boating is a problem, she says, but so are boater attitudes. She says testimony during Cameron s trial revealed that just days before the accident, Cameron and his mechanic, a U.S. Power Squadrons member, tested the Sonic s three engines with combined output of over 1,000 hp and throttled up to 50 mph in the same stretch of waterway where the accident later occurred. That illustrates exactly what s going on, she says.
People do what they want to do when they want to do it out there.