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Breaking News! Baltimore children's ferry capsizes.

Mar 6, 2004 8:16AM PST

A few hours ago a Living Classrooms water taxi, used for teaching children, capsized with 25-30 onboard. One adult female is known dead, 4-5 people (children? they aren't saying) are missing. Others have been hospitalized. Search is still underway for the missing using boats and copters.

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Link. One child has cardiac arrest and is now in shock trauma.
Mar 6, 2004 8:19AM PST
http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/2902568/detail.html

POSTED: 4:56 pm EST March 6, 2004
UPDATED: 7:05 pm EST March 6, 2004

BALTIMORE -- One woman was killed Saturday as rescue divers
continue to searched for 4 people missing after a water taxi
carrying 25 people capsized during a fierce rain and wind storm in
the Patapsco River near the Inner Harbor.

Officials said 21 people have
been rescued -- including one
child and one adult who were in
cardiac arrest. A woman in her
50s taken to Bayview Medical
Center died, Baltimore city police
said. Six of those were taken to
a nearby hospital after being
pulled from the water, and their
conditions were not immediately
known.
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It seems to hurt so much more when children are involved - Hope they find the missing but it doesn't look too good :( NT
Mar 6, 2004 9:28AM PST

nt

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Re:Link. One child has cardiac arrest and is now in shock trauma.
Mar 6, 2004 10:19AM PST

The water temperature was in the low 40's at the time of the accident. Fire and police officials believe the pontoon boat quickly capsized as the storm bore down on it. They say no one in the craft had time to get their life jackets on. WBAL-TV talked to a witness who said she saw life vests floating in the water shortly after the accident.

{This was on the Boston Channel News which was very similar to your link James except for this paragraph.)

George

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Re:Breaking News! Baltimore children's ferry capsizes.
Mar 6, 2004 10:02AM PST

Thats Sad. I feel for the parents of those Children.

George

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Re: Breaking News! Baltimore children's ferry capsizes.
Mar 6, 2004 11:38AM PST

Hi, James.

That's terrible. I heard the story on tonight's news, but they only said it was a water taxi. Apparently there was terrible weather involved -- perhaps even a waterspout (that's speculation, but there was a strong thunderstorm at the time).

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We had a great day going, then...
Mar 6, 2004 3:25PM PST

...some very dark clouds rapidly approached with wind picking up. I was trying to get goods from Walmart into the van as the first drops of rain came. By the time we got home 10 minutes later, it was past us, we had only caught an edge of it. The worst of it hit right on Baltimore with some gust over 50 mph. They think one of those gusts capsized the boat. They showed a timed photo sequence from a park 2 miles away from the accident over a 1 hour period which clearly showed how quickly it went from a good day to very stormy weather and then it was gone on out over the bay. I think it's lucky more children weren't killed in the capsize.

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UPDATE: Last person finally released from hospital, 8 yr old girl.
Apr 1, 2004 1:04PM PST
http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/2966728/detail.html

BALTIMORE -- The Virginia girl hospitalized since last month's deadly taxi boat accident in Baltimore is finally out of the hospital.

Sarah Bentrem, 8, of Harrisonburg, Va., was released Thursday from the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Her brother Daniel, 6, was one of five people who died when the pontoon boat capsized during a sudden storm.

The Bentrem family....
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