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Water taxi capsizes in Baltimore; 10 missing

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Posted by: JG

This is going on right now.
They need prayer to find the people before they die.
Please pray


Water taxi capsizes in Baltimore; 10 missing
Fierce rain and wind storm hits cityThe Associated Press
Updated: 6:06 p.m. ET March 06, 2004BALTIMORE - A water taxi carrying 24 passengers capsized Saturday in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor during a fierce rain and wind storm, leaving 10 people missing and injuring at least two others, authorities said.

Fire department spokesman Kevin Cartwright said 12 passengers were rescued, and a woman and child were injured. Divers were in the water searching for the 10 missing passengers, Cartwright said.

He said a storm with heavy rain and powerful winds that came through the city at about the time of the accident may have caused the vessel to capsize.

The accident happened at around 4 p.m. about a mile offshore.

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The Inner Harbor is one of the nation’s oldest seaports and draws millions of tourists every year. Water taxis ferry thousands of visitors each year to the many points on the harbor, including Fort McHenry, Fells Point and the National Aquarium.


Posted by: MaryTemp

Quote:
Originally Posted by JG
This is going on right now.
They need prayer to find the people before they die.
Please pray


Water taxi capsizes in Baltimore; 10 missing
Fierce rain and wind storm hits cityThe Associated Press
Updated: 6:06 p.m. ET March 06, 2004BALTIMORE - A water taxi carrying 24 passengers capsized Saturday in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor during a fierce rain and wind storm, leaving 10 people missing and injuring at least two others, authorities said.

Fire department spokesman Kevin Cartwright said 12 passengers were rescued, and a woman and child were injured. Divers were in the water searching for the 10 missing passengers, Cartwright said.

He said a storm with heavy rain and powerful winds that came through the city at about the time of the accident may have caused the vessel to capsize.

The accident happened at around 4 p.m. about a mile offshore.

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The Inner Harbor is one of the nation’s oldest seaports and draws millions of tourists every year. Water taxis ferry thousands of visitors each year to the many points on the harbor, including Fort McHenry, Fells Point and the National Aquarium.


Oh Father,

Please hear our prayers that each and every person on this water taxi will be found safe, please do not let a single person perish as a result of this accident. Please come to them and protect them and let rescuers find the missing quickly. I thank-you Father for hearing our prayers and I stand in agreement with all those who are praying asking in Jesus Holy Name, Amen and Amen!!!


Posted by: ANOINTED WARRIOR

Jesus with your angels find all these people and take complete charge and dominion over all that is going on here, I leave this all in your hands Jesus for you to work out for your glory...


Posted by: akabezalel

Father!

In the Name of Jesus, I ask for the LIVES of the Missing! Father, I ask for You to use Your power to raise the dead and bring them to the surface for breath and life! Father, Please do not let anyone die with out Jesus as their Lord and Savior! AMEN!!!


Posted by: JG

A rescue vessel tows in a capsized water taxi, March 7, 2004 following an accident on Baltimore Harbor. The water taxi, carrying about 25 people, capsized in the harbor during a brief storm on Saturday afternoon and rescue officials said 7 people were missing, feared dead. Baltimore Fire Department said 18 people were rescued, two of whom suffered cardiac arrests. Police and Coast Guard search and rescue teams, including divers, were looking for the missing. Photo by Reuters (Handout)




By Bryan Sears
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - As many as five people were feared drowned when a water-taxi filled with tourists capsized in Baltimore harbor in a brief but fierce storm on Saturday, rescue officials said.

Two people were confirmed to have died and three were missing, presumed dead, after a freak wind flipped the 36-foot (11-meter) boat over during a "microburst" thunderstorm on Baltimore's scenic Inner Harbor, city officials said.

Twenty people were rescued, pulled out of the cold water and plucked off the hull of the overturned boat by Naval reservists who were credited with preventing more deaths.

Two people, one of them a child, suffered cardiac arrest and were taken to Maryland University Hospital. One of the dead was a woman in her 30s. The other was not identified.

There was no hope of finding any more people alive, said Baltimore Fire Department spokesman Kevin Cartwright.

"Unfortunately no one spending an hour to an hour and a half in this water would be able to survive," he said.

The part-time sailors saw the boat capsize in the storm from the dockside U.S. Naval Reserve Center and immediately launched a rescue boat. Two of the reservists jumped into the water to rescue people unable to scramble onto the upturned boat.

"It's a very tragic incident but there could have been a greater loss of life," Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley said.

Petty Officer Edward Mendez, one of the Naval reservists on the rescue boat, said: "The boat tried to turn but the wind took him. There was nothing he could do. It just took him right over."

The boat was operated as a water-taxi by the Baltimore-based nonprofit Living Classrooms Foundation, an educational organization that serves at-risk youth. It was ferrying out-of-town tourists around the harbor in unseasonably warm weather when the storm struck.

The captain of a second Foundation boat radioed the water-taxi to warn them of the fast-approaching storm and the boat was turning to head for shore near Fort McHenry about 4 p.m. when it capsized, city officials said. They said it was the first incident of its kind in Baltimore harbor.

The boat was recovered and towed into a city Fire Department dock, where it will be inspected as part of an investigation by National Transportation Safety Board officials.


Posted by: StarChilde

Dear God,
please be with those who have suffered any loss of family or friend due to this horrible tragedy. Comfort them and help them to find solace in You~ let all realize that sometimes life is shorter than we realize, and that all should accept Christ Jesus as their Saviour. Help those who need You in this time~ in Jesus Christ's precious and Holy Name I pray~ amen and amen~


Posted by: Viviane

Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus , please be with this people, rescue them yourself any where that they are right now, save their life from death, and let them be find as soon as possible. In the name of Jesus amen.


Posted by: tm54

HEavenly Father comfort those familues who have lost loved ones . in Jesus name i ask Lord amen