Danube River Cruise Ship Accident

The Viking Sigyn cruise ship struck the Mermaid just after 2100.

Danube river cruise ship accident. Skipper of ship that struck tour boat on Danube killing at least 7 arrested Seven people are confirmed dead in the accident and 21 people are missing. Police special forces officers and divers are seen on a boat at the site of a ship accident which killed several people near Margaret Bridge on the Danube river in Budapest Hungary May 30. BUDAPEST Hungary -- A Hungarian judge on Saturday ordered the formal arrest of a captain whose Viking river cruise ship collided with a sightseeing boat on the Danube River sinking the tourist boat and leaving seven South Koreans dead and 21 other people missing.

In June this year multiple bodies were recovered after a tourist boat called The Mermaid sank on the Danube river following a collision with a cruise ship known as the Viking Sigyn. A floating crane raised The Mermaid to the surface allowing divers to enter. A woman stands by flowers and candles.

BUDAPEST Hungary AP The captain of a cruise ship involved in a May 2019 collision on the Danube River in which 28 people were killed has. Shipping Cruise Ships Ports. Twenty-seven people mostly tourists from South Korea died in the May collision on the Danube River.

The cargo vessel which was proceeding upstream en route. River Cruise Tragedy On Wednesday night a tourist boat named Mermaid was involved in a collision which caused the vessel to sink on the Danube River in. The captain of a river cruise ship that collided with a tourist sightseeing boat in the Danube River in Budapest causing it to capsize and sink has been taken into custody by Hungarian police.

Late Friday night on the Danube a cargo ship broke from its anchor and headed straightaway into a river ship. 108 BUDAPEST Hungary The Ukrainian captain of the cruise ship involved in last weeks deadly collision with a sightseeing boat on the Danube River was also involved in a crash in the. A search operation continues near the Margaret bridge on the Danube river after a.

Several passengers aboard the Viking Sigyn a Viking Cruises ship have come forward with their accounts of the recent tragedy on the Danube that injured seven took the lives of seven others and left 21 missingAccording to one tourist aboard the Viking Sigyn while most didnt even register the accident others were shocked by the sight of people stranded in the water screaming for help. Captain of boat involved in Danube crash arrested. Police said it took only seven seconds for the boat to overturn and sink.