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DNH 2021 DNH 2021 · 11/06/2022
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Danube boat collision: diver training tank inaugurated – PHOTOS

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Diver training tank Baja South Korea Danube

Photo: MTI/Dániel Kiss

Hungary’s first ever diver training tank was inaugurated in Baja, in the south, on Friday, on the occasion of the third anniversary of a deadly boat collision on the River Danube which took the lives of many South Korean tourists in 2019.

On May 29, 2019, the Viking Sigyn cruise ship collided with the Hableany sightseeing boat which had 33 South Korean tourists on board and a crew of two Hungarians. Seven tourists were rescued from the water after the collision and the rest died. One of the bodies has not been recovered.

Róbert Zsigó, Baja’s Fidesz MP, said at the inauguration that

the disaster bound two nations together.

He said the youngest victim of the collision was 6 years old and the oldest 71.

  • Read also: Third anniversary of Danube tourist boat tragedy marked – PHOTOS
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South Korea’s ambassador in Budapest, Park Chul-min, awards one of the Hungarian divers. Photo: MTI/Dániel Kiss

Park Chul-min, South Korea’s ambassador to Hungary, said May 29, 2019 had been “a moment of shock” which to this day could not be forgotten. At the same time, he expressed his thanks and gratitude to the divers who had done everything they could to save the victims at the scene of the disaster.

The diver training tank inaugurated in Baja, a city at the southern Hungarian section of the River Danube, was built at the initiative of the Havaria Disaster Management Public Benefit Association.

South Korea tourist boat Budapest

The commemoration in Baja. Photo: MTI/Dániel Kiss

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Source: MTI

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