Viking Cruise Ship Accident In Budapest

The closure of the waterway June 5-14 affected 25 scheduled cruise itineraries mainly between homeports Amsterdam Holland and Budapest.

Viking cruise ship accident in budapest. Last Updated 2 years ago. At 2100 local time 29th May the Viking river ship Sigyn was in the vicinity of another vessel a Hungarian tourist ship when it was involved in an incident on the Danube River in Budapest. The skipper of a cruise ship that struck a sightseeing boat on the Danube sinking that vessel was detained by Hungarian police.

All 27 targets were from the Mermaid which sank within secs of the collision. The accident occurred at 905 PM on Wednesday when Hungarian sightseeing boat Hableány Mermaid collided with Viking Sigyn a large cruise ship belonging to a Swiss company. Hableány sunk in 7 seconds.

We can confirm that even though the Captain of the Viking Sigyn was onboard the Viking Idun on April 1. On the night of May 29 in a driving rain an international cruise ship the Viking Sigyn struck and sank a smaller sightseeing boat the Mermaid killing 28 people. All but two of those killed were South Korean tourists.

The Viking cruise ship collided with an 89-ft 27-m long sightseeing boat Hableany translated Mermaid on Danube River near Budapests Parliament building. The Viking Sigyn cruise ship struck the Mermaid tour boat just after 2100 local time 1900 GMT on 29 May as both vessels passed under Budapests Margaret Bridge. At the time of the collision there were 35 people aboard the Hableány.

It was the worst crash on the Danube in more than 50 years. 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. Police confirmed Thursday that 7 people are dead and another 21 are still missing.

Yuri Chaplinskys cruise liner the Viking Sigyn hit a smaller tourist boat the Mermaid under a bridge in the capital during torrential rain on. Ship collision - Captain of cruise ship remanded back into custody. 22 women 12 men and a six-year-old girl traveling with her mother and grandparents.