Such deaths are rare — about half a dozen people are believed to have died in similar incidents on the lake over the past decade — but authorities warn that the potential for similar tragedies is great on a lake with an estimated 22,000 docks. Despite recent beefed-up inspection efforts, authorities acknowledged that they had no way of knowing how many of those docks lack crucial protection.
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