Officials are investigating the cause of a stall of a Ride the Ducks boat early Sunday afternoon on the Delaware River.
It happened around 1:15 p.m. on a boat with 26 passengers and two crew members. The boat was towed within four minutes to the shoreline by a response boat. No one was injured and all passengers were offered a full refund, according to Ride the Ducks.
“Like any other mechanical vehicle, vessels may sometimes stall. The important point was that our safety procedures worked just as they had been planned and practiced. At no time were passengers in harm’s way,” said Greg Blumenthal, RTD Philadelphia general manager. “It’s too early to know the exact cause of the stall; a review will be done to determine the cause of the service disruption.”
The stall comes only a few days after a new video was released of the deadly duck boat accident that occurred in July 2010 in which two people were killed.
The families of the victims filed wrongful death lawsuits against the companies that owned the vessels involved in the accident. The trial begins on Monday.
