Viking Cruise Ship Accident In Budapest

The Viking Sigyn cruise ship hit the Mermaid after 2100 local time 1900 GMT on 29 May.

Viking cruise ship accident in budapest. The Viking ship collided Wednesday evening with a much smaller sightseeing boat carrying 35 people most of them South Korean tourists in Budapest the capital. Budapest Hungary The Viking Sigyn a 95-room river cruise ship collided with a small sight-seeing boat the Mermaid carrying 33 South Korean tourists. Yuri Chaplinskys cruise ship lining the Viking Sigyn struck a smaller sized visitor watercraft the Mermaid under a bridge in the resources throughout downpour on May 29.

Body found five days after crash. Hungarian prosecutors on Thursday charged a cruise ship captain over the deadly collision on the Danube River. Divers so far have been unable to even approach the wreckage of the 27-meter 88½-foot tour boat due to high water levels strong currents and murky waters.

Yuri Chaplinskys cruise liner the Viking Sigyn hit a smaller tourist boat the Mermaid under a bridge in the capital during torrential rain on. The accident resulted in shutting down to all shipping traffic a section of Main-Donau Kanal Main-Danube Canal aka Europa-Kanal. Seven people were rescued.

The Viking ship collided Wednesday evening with a much smaller sightseeing boat carrying 35 people most of them South Korean tourists in Budapest. At the time of the collision there were 35 people aboard the Hableány. 22 women 12 men and a six-year-old girl traveling with her mother and grandparents.

Last Updated 2 years ago. The heavy rainfall and the resulting strong. Last month the Viking Sigyn hit a small tour boat during a stormy nighttime cruise along a crowded stretch of the Danube in Budapest killing 19 South Korean tourists and a Hungarian crewman.

Hungarian for Mermaid was a 27-metre 89 ft river cruiser operated on the Danube river in Budapest HungaryOn a rainy night at 905 pm of 29 May 2019 the 135-metre 443 ft Viking Sigyn collided with Hableány from behind under the Margaret Bridge near the Parliament Building. Police confirmed Thursday that 7 people are dead and another 21 are still missing. Hableány sunk in 7 seconds.