A Boston Harbor wedding cruise got stuck and was stranded for several hours
137 passengers had to be rescued.
What was supposed to be a day of celebration for a pair of newlyweds turned into a fiasco.
The Boston Globe reports a wedding reception aboard the Majesty, a Boston Harbor Cruises charter vessel that promises a “storybook romance” for weddings, came to a standstill on Saturday around 7 p.m. when the boat ran aground. The ship got stuck in the sand near Georges Island, which is seven miles from Boston.
Officers aboard the Thomas Paine currently evacuating passengers aboard vessel that has run aground in Boston Harbor pic.twitter.com/kcpwsnUpjh
— MAEnviroPolice (@MAEnviroPolice) May 29, 2016
This is what the Boston Harbor wedding cruise boat that ran aground looked like after the tide went out. pic.twitter.com/CeV4jdKFO8
— Boston 25 News (@boston25) May 29, 2016
“All passengers were safely transferred to the Asteria, another Boston Harbor Cruises vessel,” Alison Nolan, general manager of the cruise line, told the Globe.
All 137 passengers are safe. 152 people, including crew and staff, were aboard the ship.
ABC reports the scheduled three-hour wedding reception turned into a seven-hour calamity.
“Kids are crying, people are screaming,” the couple told ABC. “It was crazy.”
At least there’s a silver lining: ABC says the newlyweds headed to their honeymoon in Brazil soon after.
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