Viking River Cruise ship collides with tour boat on Danube
May 31, 2019, 11:02 am
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Viking River Cruise ship collides with tour boat on Danube
7 dead, 21 missing so far. 
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/30/72822...t-least-7-dead
Not a good year for Viking.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/30/72822...t-least-7-dead
Not a good year for Viking.
May 31, 2019, 1:25 pm
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Watching the video attached to the story I can’t see where the Viking captain could have done much to avoid the collision. Granted it’s hard to tell but it looks like the smaller tour boat tried to beat the bigger Viking boat under the bridge and cut the Viking captain off. Never have had much interest in river cruising and this doesn’t make it any more attractive.
May 31, 2019, 2:50 pm
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Watching the video attached to the story I can’t see where the Viking captain could have done much to avoid the collision. Granted it’s hard to tell but it looks like the smaller tour boat tried to beat the bigger Viking boat under the bridge and cut the Viking captain off. Never have had much interest in river cruising and this doesn’t make it any more attractive.
May 31, 2019, 2:59 pm
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I'm seeing something different than the both of you. As I interpret the video, the smaller ship is always forward and to the right of the Viking ship. The Viking ends up making a hard right and crashing into the smaller ship. I'm no nautical expert, but it appears that the smaller ship had the right-of-way.
May 31, 2019, 3:56 pm
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Not a great or clear video so hard to tell. That said the smaller boat captain has to be aware of the danger. I grew up on Puget Sound and had everything from a 9’ sailing pram to a 65’ dual engine cruiser. Puget Sound is full of big ships and around the ports like Seattle and Tacoma you have to have your head on a swivel. Yes there is right away but I could get out of the way of a cargo ship a lot easier than he could get out of my way. You can get very dead being right.
https://news.google.com/articles/CBM...S&ceid=US%3Aen