{"id":1526,"date":"2024-10-20T18:15:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/ferry-dock-accident-kills-seven-in-us\/"},"modified":"2024-10-20T18:15:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:45:11","slug":"ferry-dock-accident-kills-seven-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/ferry-dock-accident-kills-seven-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry dock accident kills seven in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Several other people sustained injuries after a deck gangway collapsed in the state of Georgia, local authorities have said<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>At least seven people died and several others were hospitalised when a ferry dock walkway buckled in the US state of Georgia on Saturday, local authorities have said.<\/p>\n<p>Eight people were hospitalized, at least six of them with critical injuries, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said in a statement, as quoted by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>A gangway, linking an outer dock where people board the ferry with another dock onshore, collapsed, sending about 20 people plunging into the Atlantic waters, according to Tyler Jones, a spokesman for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The department operates the dock and ferries that carry passengers between the island and the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Jones said crews from the US Coast Guard, the McIntosh County Fire Department, and others were searching the water for survivors. He added that a group of engineers and constructors would arrive on Sunday to investigate the cause of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere was no collision\u201d<\/em> with a boat or anything else, the spokesman said, as cited by the agency. <em>\u201cThe thing just collapsed. We don\u2019t know why.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/africa\/605246-dr-congo-dozens-dead-boat-accident\/\">Scores drown in central African ferry disaster (VIDEO)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred on Sapelo Island, which is 97 kilometers south of the mainland and only accessible by state-run ferry or private boats. At the time of the tragedy, residents and tourists had gathered for an annual celebration held by the island\u2019s community of black slave descendants.<\/p>\n<p>Cultural Day is marked by the inhabitants of the Hog Hammock Community, formed by the African American ethnic group known as Gullah-Geechee, which has retained much of its African heritage including a unique dialect, thanks to the isolation of the island.<\/p>\n<p>Hog Hammock Community on Sapelo Island is believed to be one of the last intact island-based Gullah-Geechee communities in America. In 1996, the entire area of the community was included in the National Register of Historic Places, the official list of the country\u2019s treasured historic sites.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ferry dock has collapsed on Sapelo Island in the state of Georgia, leaving at least seven people dead and several injured Read Full Article at RT.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ferry dock accident kills seven in US - Leading the AI News Frontier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/ferry-dock-accident-kills-seven-in-us\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ferry dock accident kills seven in US - 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