Stone Mountain is well known for not only its geology, but also the enormous rock relief on its north face, the largest bas-relief in the world. At its summit, the elevation is 1,686 feet (514 m) above sea level and 825 feet (251 m) above the surrounding area. Ride the Ducks has been in Philadelphia since 2003.Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park near Stone Mountain, Georgia. The duck boat was operated by Ride the Ducks, which also operates tours in San Francisco, Seattle, Stone Mountain, Ga., Newport, R.I., and Branson, Mo. "Fortunately, you began to see the life vests popping up almost immediately," Waxmunski said. "After the barge hit it - it almost looked like slow motion - the duck boat began to turn over." "I whirled around as the barge began to run over the duck boat," said Larry Waxmunski, a guard for the Delaware River Waterfront Corp. "We had engine trouble, so we were just waiting for somebody else to come and tow us."īystanders screamed as the barge hit the boat, said a security guard who was patrolling the waterfront. "A barge went into us," one of the duck boat's passengers, Sandy Cohen, told WPVI-TV. A spokeswoman for the duck boat company said 39 people were aboard, and the reason for the discrepancy wasn't clear. Coast Guard boats assisted by police and fire crews rescued people from the water, he said. There were 35 passengers and two crew members aboard the duck boat, said Coast Guard Senior Chief Bud Holden. Late Wednesday, Robert Sumwalt, a board member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the agency would investigate the sinking, including trying to figure out why the two vessels collided and "how conspicuous would that duck have been" to the tugboat that was pushing the 250-foot long barge.
Vanore said crews would not attempt to recover it until Thursday at the earliest. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said divers found the duck boat in water about 50 feet deep. Gatlin said there was no recording of a mayday call from the boat. It was struck about 10 minutes later by a barge used to transport sludge, then sank. and suffered a mechanical problem and a small fire, officials said. The duck boat had driven into the water just after 2:30 p.m. He said divers were able to reach the duck boat but could not get inside to see if the missing people were there. Todd Gatlin, deputy sector commander in Philadelphia. "Right now we're at a point where, I'll be honest, hope is fading, but we've not given up hope completely," said Coast Guard Capt. The search was scaled back to two boats at nightfall from nearly 20 boats earlier, along with a Coast Guard helicopter. "It's remarkable that we're only looking for two people," Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Ross said. Searchers spent hours looking for a 16-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man believed to have been aboard the vessel, police Lt. Witnesses said many passengers were wearing life vests as rescuers plucked them from the water.
Ten people were sent to one hospital after the capsizing of the six-wheeled "duck boat," which offers tours of Philadelphia by water and land. PHILADELPHIA - An amphibious sightseeing boat that stalled in the Delaware River was knocked over by an oncoming barge Wednesday, spilling 37 people overboard and leaving two passengers unaccounted for after a frantic rescue effort.
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