changed his outlook on life forever. oh, my gosh. it was it was kind of like a second chance on life. really, in a way. i mean, it s something i think about every day. but yeah, i certainly feel lucky to be alive, and i m more lucky that my daughter s alive. coming up a fishing trip brings big fish and even bigger problems. a hole in the boat. look out, you guys. rocking the boat, please, don t rock this! to steady betty. to steady betty. fire it up! am i the only one with a meeting? i ve got two. yeah we ve gotta go. i gotta say it man, this is a nice set-up. too soon. just kidding.
a daughter/daddy trip and part of the trip brought us through philadelphia. they decide to take a ride on the duck boat. it was a novel experience for both of us. are you having a good time, gang? this commercial for ride the ducks shows everyone onboard enjoying the tour from the streets to the river on what is typically a care-free and exciting experience. but on july 7th, 2010, at about 2:30 in the afternoon, this footage shows the duck boat sitting in the delaware river in the middle of an active shipping channel after problems with the boat s engine. the smell i was smelling when we first got in the river was kind of getting stronger. the engine overheats and the captain drops anchor at about 55 feet. then the smoke started pouring out of that small opening down below and the captain put duct tape on it and
motorboat but something goes wrong. a large wake from another vessel has washed over the side and now the partially submerged boat is caught in a 12-mile-an-hour current. the man who is steering guns the engine but has no control. the passengers know they re in trouble, but the real danger isn t immediately obvious until, suddenly, it s too late. they re on a collision course with the construction barge that s tied to the bridge. an adult onboard tries to push them away from the barge, but he s no match for the weight of the boat and the power of the current. the bayliner is forced under the steel bow of the barge as passengers jump for their lives, a man tosses this young girl overboard. she s wearing a life jacket, but some of the others aren t. as their boat smashes into the barge, it s crushed and in less than 30 seconds, disappears into
crowded lifeboat shows it dropping and careening towards the cruise ship. i thought that our lifeboat was going to flip over into the ocean and then we would just drown in it because it s a closed boat. so, that was the most scary part for me. their boat gets stuck while it s still attached to the cruise ship. passengers are asked to help. they ask us to pull the rope and then it falls down the other side very, very violently and that s when i could literally hear my heartbeat. eventually, they reach the water. we hear the splash and when we hear we got to the water and everybody started clapping. after that, it took about maybe three minutes to get to the port. while the sabos make it out by lifeboat, this infrared video taken by the italian coast guard shows other passengers and crew escaping down the side of the
chance of using the ship s radio to call for help. filling up the zodiac right now with some air. we re all going to pile in here. this is really unbelievable. can you hear me? hello? bob calmly narrates the scene as emergency preparations are executed. meanwhile, his brother, john, is trying to make a distress call from his cellphone. he climbs high on the boat, but reception is still bad. we re sinking. we re taking on water. we re out on a vessel. seven miles south of flat island. seven miles south of flat island. we need something, now. you got that? we knew this thing was not going to stop leaking. i mean, it was going down. by now, all six passengers and two crew onboard realize they only have minutes to abandon ship. hello. hello. we re all going to get in that.