PAGE, Ariz. — An Arizona couple was boating on Lake Powell on Memorial Day when they witnessed a massive rock slide – and the shocking moment was caught on camera.
According to KUTV and KTVK, Mila Carter, of Thatcher, said she and her husband, a photographer, were on a ski boat bound for Antelope Point Marina on Monday when they spotted sand and rocks falling from a cliff.
“It kind of kept going long enough that my husband ... stopped and pulled out his camera, and I pulled out my cellphone just in time to catch this massive breakaway of a huge piece of the cliff,” she told KUTV.
She continued filming as the landslide caused a large wave, the news outlets reported. The video shows the couple’s boat fleeing to safety as the rising water swiftly approaches.
“After we were out of the way, we just kind of stopped and watched and made sure we hadn’t seen anything tragic,” Carter told KUTV. “Luckily, everyone was in the right place at the right time, and it didn’t happen the other way around.”
Carter shared the video on Facebook, where it quickly went viral. By early Wednesday, it had been viewed more than 473,000 times.
Joe Cook of the Arizona Geological Survey told KTVK that the incident, a “rock topple,” likely occurred because the lake’s levels are critically low.