Boat Accident In Budapest

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How is it possible in such a busy city that people could be missing and pulled to safety.

Also, how did the boats not see each other...

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It's kind of dark on the Danube at that time of night.

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Shepherd Purple Dandruff wrote: »

It's kind of dark on the Danube at that time of night.

Yes but shouting and screaming to nearby roads?

milehip

Pheonix10 wrote: »

How is it possible in such a busy city that people could be missing and pulled to safety.

Also, how did the boats not see each other...

Not sure I follow your 1st question op.


As regards the second, I guess it's due to the second boats bridge being much higher than the boat that was capsized.

It's a tragedy what happened but one wonders what controls are in place of all the vessels on that stretch of river,judging by the news footage it look as busy as a motorway.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Pheonix10 wrote: »

Yes but shouting and screaming to nearby roads?

Seriously? Do you have any sense of the size of the Danube at that point?

Spanish Eyes

This sad incident resonates with me. My brother and his wife are in BPest at the moment.

They tried to get on a river boat and missed it by minutes, apparently there is a river taxi type thing like Venice. They were on the Pest side at the time, and so wandered back from the jetty to get a taxi back. Then it all happened. I could actually hear the shock in their Whatsapp messages.

So sad.

But the weather was horrendous, driving rain, winds, and thunderstorms. I felt so sorry for the Korean man who was the Travel agent bowing in apology. How could it have been his fault?

malinheader

Looks a very busy stretch of water with a very strong current, driving heavy rain would lead to very poor visibility so its probably an extremely sad accident.

iamwhoiam

Pheonix10 wrote: »

How is it possible in such a busy city that people could be missing and pulled to safety.

Also, how did the boats not see each other...

It was dark , lashing rain and in the middle of a very wide fast running river . It sank in 7 seconds

jay48

Going by the cctv footage that was released the boat was clipped and capsized almost immediately, I'd imagine quite a lot of people were trapped in or under the boat.

We done the boat trip before Christmas, there's a lot of traffic on the river doing tours. The hotel boats were parked up when we were there, on the footage it seemed to be shifting compared to the boat that was hit.

0gac3yjefb5sv7

Thanks for the insight. But surely the boat that hit them would have stopped and rescued as many as possible?

iamwhoiam

Pheonix10 wrote: »

Thanks for the insight. But surely the boat that hit them would have stopped and rescued as many as possible?

7 or 9 were rescued so maybe they did . Can you imagine the dark with sheeting rain and a boat sinking in 7 seconds ? The river in Budapest is huge and fast and deep .

malinheader

Pheonix10 wrote: »

Thanks for the insight. But surely the boat that hit them would have stopped and rescued as many as possible?

Be very hard in that speed of a current.

Richard Hillman

If you can't swim, it will only take about a minute before you're dead. 30 or so people overboard, even if you have a couple of rescue boats following it, there are still going to be casualties.

Pheonix10

Pheonix10 wrote: »

Thanks for the insight. But surely the boat that hit them would have stopped and rescued as many as possible?

There are some huge boats on the Danube. They even have oil tankers. Not as big as the ocean ones obviously, but it is a massive river.

Think of a boat overturning on the Shannon and then imagine the Shannon to be five times wider.

Spanish Eyes

No lifejackets apparently. But I suppose they cannot be expected to be worn at all times on a river cruise. The incident happened so quickly too.

And many people think travelling by boat is safer than by air. Awful tragedy.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Pheonix10 wrote: »

How is it possible in such a busy city that people could be missing and pulled to safety.

Also, how did the boats not see each other...

If it was dark, something similar to the Marchioness disaster maybe?

vicwatson

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

If it was dark, something similar to the Marchioness disaster maybe?

It was dark and peeing rain. Though radar? Weird

malinheader

vicwatson wrote: »

It was dark and peeing rain. Though radar? Weird

All depends on the kind of radar they had. Alot of radar are affected by conditions like heavy showers and also the height difference of the two boats and distance between them.

bodhrandude

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48468701

Yurt2

This will strike a painful nerve in Korea. A ferry that sank in 2014 with the loss of over 300 souls started a sequence of events that led to the former President ending up in prison and shook the people's faith in the institutions of their country. The Korean foreign minister mobilized immediately, flying to Budapest with divers and equipment.

Mr. CooL ICE

RIP to the deceased.

I've been in Vienna and the Danube there is huuuge. And that's upstream from Budapest, so I can only imagine what it's like there.

wexandproud

Pheonix10 wrote: »

Thanks for the insight. But surely the boat that hit them would have stopped and rescued as many as possible?

its not like a car , you can't just go down through the gears and hit the brakes . Not one bit simple to stop and control a boat at slow speed in a fast moving river with bad weather