Stone mountain duck boat3/5/2023 ![]() It was just 10 months after the Miss Majestic disaster the NTSB told the industry: " Without delay, alter your amphibious vessels to provide reserve buoyancy through passive means, such as watertight compartmentalization, built-in flotation, or equivalent measures, so that they will remain afloat and upright in the event of flooding, even when carrying a full complement of passenger and crew." Mongeluzzi, outlining the 13-count Complaint, said circumstances on Jwould have been dramatically different had the defendants just followed the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) earlier warnings to upgrade safety features on the duck boats in the aftermath of the fatal Miss Majestic duck boat sinking on a lake in Arkansas. "They were shocked to learn that the tug boat operator would not cooperate in the incident investigation - instead invoking the Fifth Amendment and hiring a criminal defense lawyer - and urged us to file now to get to the truth." She added that reconstructing the tragic events of July 7 points to the conclusion that the deaths of Dora and Szeb were senseless and clearly preventable. "The families authorized this litigation because their only children died they must know why and they are determined to protect others from the same fate," Ostrov Ronai said. The Complaint names as defendants: Ride the Ducks of Philadelphia, owner-operator of the ill-fated tourist boat DUKW 34 Herschend Family Entertainment Corp., Norcross, Georgia, the parent company of Ride the Ducks K-Sea Transportation Partners LP (NYSE: KSP), East Brunswick, NJ, owner-operator of Caribbean Sea, the tugboat Amphibious Vehicle Manufacturing, Branson, Missouri, builder of duck boat 34 and the City of Philadelphia, owner of the 290-foot barge. The parents are Peter Schwendtner, Aniko Schwendtner Takacs, Sandor Prem and Gizella Prem. Duffy, Esq., of Saltz, Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky, PC, on behalf of the parents of Dora Schwentner, 16, and Szabolcs Prem, 20, who drowned when the barge, The Resource, capsized the duck boat in which they were passengers. The Complaint was filed by plaintiff's co-counsel Holly Ostrov Ronai, Esq., and Peter Ronai, Esq., of Ronai & Ronai, LLP, and Robert J. The action, the first Complaint filed in the aftermath of the incident, includes a claim for punitive damages based on the alleged outrageous conduct of the defendants. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Allegations of a blatantly unsafe tourist duck boat and a tug boat operating "blind and deaf" while pushing a City-owned sludge barge are detailed in a sweeping wrongful death Complaint filed this morning by lawyers representing the families of the two Hungarian student-tourists who drowned Jwhen the barge rammed the duck boat in the Delaware River. ![]()
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