DoorDash executive and his parents among victims named after Lake Tahoe boat sinking killed eight

Daily Mail​

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A DoorDash executive and his parents have been identified as among those who lost their lives after their boat capsized on Lake Tahoe.
Josh Pickles, 37, of San Francisco, and his parents Terry Pickles, 73, and Paula Bozinovich, 71, of Redwood City, were celebrating his mom's birthday when the vessel sank.
The family died alongside seven others. The group were partying on a 27-foot Chris Craft boat on Saturday when weather conditions drastically changed.
'We are devastated by this tragedy. We lost my loving husband, Josh Pickles, his parents, Terry Pickles and Paula Bozinovich, and Uncle Peter Bayes, as well as friends in this tragedy,' Pickles' wife Jordan Sugar-Carlsgaard said in a statement.
'No words can express the pain and anguish we feel knowing their lives were lost during what was meant to be a joyful time on the lake.'
The other victims were: Peter Bayes, 72, from Lincoln, California; Timothy O'Leary, 71, from Auburn, California; Theresa Giullari, 66, from Honeoye, New York; James Guck, 69, from Honeoye, New York; and Stephen Lindsay, 63, from Springwater, New York.
Two people survived the tragedy. Sugar-Carlsgaard stayed on shore with her and Pickles' seven-month-old daughter.
The day began sunny with calm waters before a freak storm rolled in bringing eight-foot waves and dangerous conditions.
'No words can express the pain and anguish we feel knowing their lives were lost during what was meant to be a joyful time on the lake,' Pickle's wife Jordan Sugar-Carlsgaard said in a statement (Pictured: Pickles with his parents)
'Usually, there are two or three-foot waves,' Tiger Gertz, of Saratoga, who was on the lake in a different boat, said, according to The Mercury News.
'These were like eight feet. It was definitely like an ocean in a storm. Not like a lake. It was very rough.'
The captain of Gertz's boat told him that he had never seen waves this bad before.
Gertz and his friends managed to scramble to safety in Emerald Bay where they waited for several hours.
When they emerged from their hideout, they saw Pickles' overturned boat near DL Bliss State Park.
'It was bout 200 feet away. We didn't think anything of it. We had no idea eight people died,' he said. 'Then we saw the firetrucks. The boat was very close to the rocks. We thought people might have swam to shore.'
Pickles' party had attempted to go back to shore when the boat capsized. The water came over the head of the boat and stalled the engine, family spokesperson Sam Singer said.
'The boat was taking on water. That's what caused it to capsize,' he said.
Pickles and his wife purchased the crashed boat last year and it was only the third time the boat had been taken out since they bought it, Singer said.
'It's shockingly sad,' the family spokesperson said. 'The family is devastated and grieving.'
The tragedy is believed to be the deadliest boating incident in the Golden State since 2019, when a 75-foot boat caught fire and sank near Santa Cruz Island, killing 34 people.