Boat Catastrophe: 14-Year-Old Survives Underwater Nightmare That Killed 34

a tourist boat capsized in severe conditions, killing at least 34 passengers and leaving eight more unaccounted for.

Around 2:00 pm local time, the disaster occurred in Ha Long Bay, a well-liked tourist area in the country’s north.

According to reports, most of the passengers were Vietnamese families traveling from the capital Hanoi, with about 20 youngsters.

According to Vietnamese authorities, the boat, dubbed Wonder Seas, was carrying 53 people when it sank during an unexpected thunderstorm: 48 tourists and five staff members.

According to local news website VNExpress, rescuers have so far recovered 27 bodies, including eight children, and saved 11 people.

Strong gusts are thought to have caused the boat to capsize; on Saturday, there were also reports of lightning and a lot of rain in the vicinity.

One of the survivors was a 14-year-old child who was rescued four hours after being trapped in the wrecked hull.

As rescue personnel continue to search for survivors, no official announcement regarding the nationality of the tourists has been made thus yet.

According to Ha Long Bay resident Tran Trong Hung, “the sky turned dark at around 2 pm.”

He claimed that there were “toe-sized hailstones with lightning, thunderstorms, and torrential rain.”

27 boats and two rescue craft are reportedly on the scene while police, the Navy, border guards, and port authorities continue to search the waterways.

Additionally, teams of divers have been looking for the missing people both inside the cabin of the overturned ship and in the surrounding area.

VnExpress reports that the boat was traveling through Ha Long Bay around 12:55 p.m. when the storm hit at 1:30 p.m.

The Quang Ninh Provincial People’s Committee was cited by the local newspaper as saying that the ship had lost its GPS signal around 2:05 p.m.

Approximately 125 miles northeast of Hanoi, Ha Long Bay welcomes tens of thousands of tourists each year. Boat cruises are quite well-liked.

Typhoon Yagi’s powerful wind and waves caused 30 boats to sink at boat lock locations in Ha Long Bay in the coastal province of Quang Ninh last year.

At least eighteen passengers were killed when a ferry sank off the well-known Indonesian resort island of Bali earlier this month.

Storm Wipha, the third typhoon to strike the South China Sea this year, is expected to land around Vietnam’s northern coast next week, which is why today’s weather occurred.

Air travel was also affected by storm-related weather.