Four men avoided falling off a dam’s crest after their boat’s motor failed at a reservoir in Uttarakhand, India, on August 14.<br /><br />The men traveled to the reservoir of the dam to inspect fertilized fish eggs. <br /><br />Their boat’s motor suffered a mechanical failure, and the men started rowing to try to get to shore. <br /><br />But officials had opened a few outlet gates and the force of the discharging water started dragging the boat, and the men along with it, towards the dam’s crest.<br /><br />The desperate men managed to climb onto the iron shutter of the gate just as their boat sank. <br /><br />The officials of the dam lowered the gate to stop the water discharge, but not before the men spent a few minutes precariously perched over the water in full flow. <br /><br />As the gate closed, the boat resurfaced and the men bailed out the water and rowed away to safety. <br /><br />“We had opened the gate only partially as the reservoir was not full,” an official at the dam said. “If not, the boat would have plunged down from a height of 60 feet. They were very lucky indeed.”
