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River cruise ship crashed bridge
On Dec 12, 2015, at 10.15 p.m. the "Primadonna" allided with a pedestrian bridge spanning the Danube lock in Aschach. The bridge was broken off its foundations and crashed onto the upper deck of the river cruise ship. The ship traffic remained barred until Dec 13, 6 p.m. when one of the two locks could be opened again. The destroyed bridge will have to be lifted off the "Primadonna" with a mobile crane. The accident happened because the master of the ship had lowered the wheelhouse too late so that it slammed into the bridge. Austrian reports with photos: http://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/linz/Zwangspause-fuer-die-MS-Primadonna;art66,2058197 http://www.binnenschifferforum.de/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=579555&d=1450082498
Primadonna stuck on Danube
The "Primadonna" with 150 passengers on board on Sep 16, 2011, ran agorund on the river Danube. The grounding occurred close to the city of Vidin in Bulgaria, near the Romanian border. The low water level of the river was likely to have caused the grounding. The 150 cruise passengers who came from Britain, Romania and France were evacuated after the grounding and has been accomodated in a hotel nearby in the hope that the ship will be refloated in the near future. None of the passengers was injured as the grounding occurred at low speed. Norwegian report with photo and video: http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/utenriks/cruiseskip-grunnstoette-i-donau-256-skip-staar-fast-3587528.html
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