{"id":17685,"date":"2019-06-04T03:49:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T03:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/video-captures-moment-cruise-ship-crashes-into-venice-dock-injuring-five-people\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T03:49:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T03:49:36","slug":"video-captures-moment-cruise-ship-crashes-into-venice-dock-injuring-five-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/video-captures-moment-cruise-ship-crashes-into-venice-dock-injuring-five-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Captures Moment Cruise Ship Crashes Into Venice Dock, Injuring Five People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A cruise ship crashed into a tourist boat before ramming into a dock in Venice, Italy after experiencing a &#8220;technical issue&#8221;\u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>At around 8:30 a.m., the MSC Opera was pulling into the dock at San Basilio in the Giudecca canal\u00a0when the cruise ship experienced unforeseen circumstances which led to a collision with a nearby\u00a0river boat that was moored there. Footage shows\u00a0the frightening moment when\u00a0the MSC Opera made its way onto the dock with its horns blaring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Goldfarb, public relations director for MSC Cruises, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/02\/729075426\/massive-cruise-ship-crashes-into-port-in-venice-injuring-at-least-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> NPR that they are considering the cruise&#8217;s problem to be a\u00a0technical issue. However,\u00a0Davide Calderan, the head of one of the tugboats accompanying the cruise ship, believes the issue can be pinpointed to an engine failure. &#8220;The MSC ship had an engine failure, which was immediately reported by the captain,&#8221;\u00a0Calderan\u00a0said. &#8220;The engine was blocked, but with its thrust on, because the speed was increasing.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MSC Opera incident has left five injured, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Lifestyle\/wireStory\/cruise-ship-plows-tourist-boat-venice-63431003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to <em>The Associated Press<\/em>, while the local Venice newspaper\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/video.ilgazzettino.it\/nordest\/venezia_momento_schianto_grande_nave-4532178.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Il Gazzettino<\/a>\u00a0reports that several people were sent into the water\u00a0following the collision with\u00a0the smaller boat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cruise ship has been given authorization\u00a0to move to the Marittima terminal, as originally\u00a0planned, and commence with passenger operations. 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At around 8:30 a.m., the MSC Opera was pulling into the dock at San Basilio in the Giudecca canal\u00a0when the cruise ship experienced unforeseen circumstances which led to a collision with a nearby\u00a0river [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[994,915,1403,3577,111,270,480,5,568,467,7,8,93,917],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accident","category-boats","category-crash","category-cruise","category-dfp-politics","category-dfp-politics-social","category-europe","category-featured","category-injuries","category-italy","category-music","category-news","category-tier-one","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17687,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17685\/revisions\/17687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}