i mean, we all know, we all have cellphones. most of the time, they don t work right outside your house. more than an hour has gone by and tensions are at a breaking point. out of desperation, john tries his cellphone again. please, give me two bars or something. mayday! mayday! when suddenly a welcome noise in the distance. the distress call did get through. all eyes were on the airplane. we could see it drop down a little lower and made a 90-degree turn and started heading right towards us and we re like, yeah. our tax dollars at work! the spotter plane is followed ten minutes later by a coast guard rescue helicopter. he opted to back off, drop down and then the diver went in and the diver, man, that guy was quite a swimmer. i mean, he had to swim, you know, 100 yards over to us and then he comes up to the boat and he goes, okay, who wants to be the first one? one by one, the seven on the
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. the barge slams into the duck boat as if swallowing it whole. people were screaming. people were barking orders at
my daughter and i were taking 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
seem almost paralyzed with fear. it was heartbreaking to watch this woman, and she was terrified and very unstable. took about two or three of the crewmen to actually help her down. but after several hours, most are safely onshore. we were like one of the first boats that got off, and it was probably two, three hours after that that the rest of our group got off. they were the very last boat. the classmates and their chaperones reunite on land. we were watching as the boat was sinking. in the beginning when we first got off, we saw it move all over the harbor because all the currents were dragging it all over the place. by the time we were able to get on the rescue boat back to athens, it was probably around 4:00, 5:00 in the morning, and at that point, our ship was completely on its side and it was going down. the ship lies crippled in the night only hours from plunging to its final resting place.
the next morning when we got to athens we saw the rest of it sink on tv. we saw the whole thing. a father and his daughter from france are reported missing and are never found. people were tired, emotions were running high. and it was a long night. a long night and a long couple of days ahead since almost all of their personal belongings, including their passports, are at the bottom of the sea. we realized, we had absolutely no clothes, and we couldn t find any place to buy clothes because it was easter weekend. eventually, the cruise line reimburses passengers for their lost items and gives them a voucher for a free cruise that jan has never used. we bought our boat a few months before we went on this cruise ship and the first thing my husband asked me when we got home was, does this mean i have to sell the boat?