National Transportation Safety Board

摘要

On March 6, 2004, the small passenger pontoon vessel M/V Lady D, a 36-foot-long by 8-foot-wide enclosed water taxi, was carrying 23 passengers and 2 crewmen en route from Fort McHenry National Monument to Fells Point, Inner Harbor, Maryland, when it encountered a rapidly developing storm with high winds. As the wind and wave intensity increased, the vessel capsized. Most of the water taxi's occupants were able to escape from the vessel, and all but 3 occupants of the Lady D were rescued within an hour of the capsizing. The bodies of the remaining victims were recovered from the waterway on March 14 and 15. As a result of this accident, 5 passengers died; 4 passengers suffered serious injuries; and 12 people sustained minor injuries.