what a great kid. she swam very confidently. she didn t need me there, at that point. this is freedom, we have people in the water. looks like they got run over by a barge. one of the duck boats. i m going to pick them up. the crash claims the lives of two hungarian students, szabolcs prem and dora schwendtner. but somehow 35 people are pulled to safety. many need medical attention, including ruby, who suffers from shock. in philadelphia, the mayor holds a press conference. this is a very serious situation and we re going to do everything we can to, obviously, get to the bottom of it. investigators at the national transportation safety board issue a press release and determine that matthew devlin, the tug boat operator towing the barge hit the duck boat because
believe that we were about to die. it just didn t seem any way possible to survive something as tall as a three-story building just mowing us over out on the middle of a river. only a few minutes go by before kevin, his daughter, ruby, and everyone else onboard realize the inevitable. we started grabbing for life preservers and such chaos on there. and, you know, my poor little daughter didn t have any idea what to do. so, i did as best i could to get us to where we could at least have a chance and i look up and i see the first mate already jumped off the boat and he s already swimming for it. i m like, oh, my gosh. kevin and ruby don t have time to put on a life jacket.
keep her near me. i knew that way we would be together when we died. kevin said he and ruby are pushed deep under the water. we came up and the barge was not on top of us, it was truly an unbelievable experience. it was as if we were swept aside in the river. that happened to all of these people. i couldn t believe the people around us. the boat was gone. kevin and ruby s ordeal is not over. almost immediately they get sucked under the water for a second time. this time i didn t have ruby s hair. i popped up and looked around and she wasn t there yet. i guess i started panicking, where is she? where is she? she popped up.
something this tall is mowing us over in the river. only a few minutes go by before kevin, his daughter ruby and everyone else on board realized the inevitable. we started grabbing for life reservers and my poor daughter didn t have any idea. so, i did the best i could to get us to where we have a chance. i look up and i see the first mate was jumped off the boat and swimming for it. my gosh. kevin and ruby don t have time to put on a life jacket. the barge slams into the duck boat as if swallowing them whole. people are screaming, barking
they swim for their lives. i was very, very proud of her. what a great kid. she swam very confidently. she didn t need me there, at that point. this is freedom, we have people in the water. looks like they got run over by a barge. one of the duck boats. i m going to pick them up. the crash claims the lives of two hungarian students, szabolcs prem and dora schwendtner. but somehow 35 people are pulled to safety. many need medical attention, including ruby, who suffers from shock. in philadelphia, the mayor holds a press conference. this is a very serious situation and we re going to do everything we can to, obviously, get to the bottom of it. investigators at the national transportation safety board issue a press release and determine that matthew devlin, the tug boat operator towing the