White’s family was among hundreds visiting the isolated Georgia barrier island Saturday for a fall festival spotlighting the history and culture of its tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants. The celebration gave way to tragedy when the gangway collapsed, sending seven visitors to their deaths.

Emotional accounts from relatives of the victims and survivors of the partial collapse of a boat dock gangway on Georgia’s Sapelo Island and a newly released video of the frantic rescue efforts paint a dramatic picture of Saturday’s incident.

Following the Sapelo Island dock gangway collapse, a notable civil rights and personal injury attorney says some families are considering taking legal action. Ben Crump is representing the families of three people who died in the collapse and a person critically injured in the incident.

A ferry dock collapsed on Sapelo Island and left seven dead and three injured. Here is information about Ben Crump, the attorney representing victims.

Video shows the frantic scene after an aluminum gangway collapsed Saturday at a boat dock on Sapelo Island capped what was supposed to have been a day of celebration, an annual festival spotlighting the culture and history of the island’s tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.

We want an investigation on every level to get the answers to how this happened," said Ben Crump, the attorney representing the families of three victims.

Federal and criminal investigations are now being called into the deadly dock collapse on Sapelo Island. Of the four people from Jacksonville who died, three are now being represented by well-known civil rights attorney Ben Crump.