Local officials said five women aboard the riverboat were injured. In videos of the crash, people were seen rushing to disembark from the moored riverboat over a short gangplank, and at least two people were left caught on the walkway as the vessel was dislodged from the pier. The MSC Opera, apparently unable to stop, blared its horn as it slammed into the much smaller River Countess river tour boat and the dock, as dozens of people ran away in panic. The pilot is heard saying that “here on the bridge, we don’t understand what happened.” An investigation has been launched. The pilot says anchors were dropped and that tugboats connected to the ship’s bow and stern took maneuvers to stop the ship. “The engine was blocked, but with its thrust on, because the speed was increasing,” he said.ĪP reports that Italian media have posted an audio clip of the MSC Opera’s pilot telling emergency officials that the cruise ship experienced a loss of controls and “activated all the procedures to avoid” a collision with a riverboat and dock in Venice. “The MSC ship had an engine failure, which was immediately reported by the captain,” Davide Calderan, head of a tugboat company involved in accompanying the ship into its berth, told Italian media. MSC Opera was built in 2004 and has a capacity of around 2,150 passengers and 728 crew. The ship was accompanied by two tugs which were unable to control the 65,591 GT ship. Five people were reported to be injured, but none seriously. At about 8:30 AM on Sunday, the cruise ship MSC Opera lost control while docking on the Giudecca Canal in Venice Italy, slamming into the dock and hitting a tour boat.
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