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DUKW 34

DUKW 34 was the Ride The Ducks amphibious passenger vehicle that was anchored in the Delaware River navigation channel when The Resource, pushed by Caribbean Sea, struck it on July 7, 2010.

Overview

DUKW 34 was the Ride The Ducks amphibious passenger vehicle that was anchored in the Delaware River navigation channel when The Resource, pushed by Caribbean Sea, struck it on July 7, 2010.

Particulars

  • Vessel type: Amphibious passenger vehicle, recorded as Passenger in the canonical vessel-type vocabulary.
  • Owner/operator at time of accident: Ride The Ducks International, LLC
  • Built: 2003 as a "Stretch Duck" by Amphibious Vehicle Manufacturing, LLC
  • Length: 33 ft / approximately 10.1 m
  • Beam: 8 ft
  • Draft during water operations with full passenger load: about 5 ft
  • Freeboard during water operations with full passenger load: about 2 ft
  • Certified capacity: maximum 39 persons, including a 2-person crew
  • Persons aboard at accident: 35 passengers and 2 crewmembers
  • Engine: Chevrolet 8-cylinder, 235-hp gasoline engine

Incidents