Lawsuit filed after 2-year-old girl, N.C. man fall off boating dock into Charleston Harbor

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A North Carolina man has filed a lawsuit against a tour company after he and his daughter fell off a boating dock and into the Charleston Harbor as they were on their way to a boating tour.

Lawyers filed the suit on behalf of John Mack on Wednesday against LaGrande Hanna, Tour Management Services Inc. and Charleston Tours and Events who own and operate a tour boat called the Carolina Belle.

The suit claims that on June 6, 2020 the defendants failed to properly secure the tour boat to the dock before boarding passengers.

According to the lawsuit, at one point, the boat pulled away from the dock causing the gangway to collapse and dumped Mack and his 2-year-old daughter into the harbor twenty feet below.

Mack said he and his daughter were not crushed as the boat slammed back into the dock, but suffered injuries as they crashed between the concrete dock and the boat’s hull on the way down.

Lawyers said if the defendants had taken time to dock the boat properly this would have never happened.