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The footage, obtained by Nine News, shows the group of friends jumping or scrambling from the boat and stumbling along the jetty as thick smoke billows from the vessel. One passenger flees carrying a small child.
Witness Ed Hurdwell felt the explosion and said he heard âa loud bang and up it went, with people on board diving offâ.
Dijane Hurdwell said it was âa horrific scene, we witnessed a horrific sceneâ.
Video footage of the explosion shows passengers fleeing after the boat burst into flames.
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NSW Ambulance Inspector David Morris said on 2GB on Monday that bystanders told them a mother and two-year-old girl had left the boat to get ice-creams and âthankfully, they sustained no injuriesâ.