On Sunday June 25, 2023, Port Miami witnessed the second fatal accident involving a ferry since 2020. A ship reportedly collided with a ferry Sunday morning resulting in the death of one man. In the last three years, it is one of the deadliest accidents in Port Miami that closed Port Miami for approximately 12 hours. A boating accident involving the Fisher Island Ferry shut down the port of Miami for nearly half a day. Reports indicate that one man was killed and another was injured in the ferry accident. More details about the fatal boating accident involving the Fisher Island Ferry are published in the following sections of this article. Scroll down the page and see below.
Fisher Island Ferry Disaster
When we talk about the ferry accident that happened three years ago, it claimed the lives of Emma Afra, 63, and her passenger Viviane Brahms, 75, of Harrison, New York. After investigating the boating accident, detectives discovered that Emma Afra had forgotten to park her Mercedes and mistakenly stepped on the accelerator as the vehicle started to roll. Continue reading this article for more details.
After some time, the investigators found that the car was overturned 52 meters below the surface. The scenes after the incident were shocking when the two victims were found embracing in the back seat of a Mercedes car. On Sunday June 25, 2023, the accident occurred just east of the Pilot House Station on Dodge Island in the early hours of Sunday morning around 3:40 am. Lt. Pete Sanchez of the Miami Fire Department said the US Coast Guard reported that a 30-foot boat struck a ferry in the channel. However, ferry personnel pulled him out of the water and turned the rescued victim over to US Coast Guard officers, who then transported him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center. Scroll down the page.
Due to the fatal accident on Fisher Island near Port Miami, the port was closed for about 12 hours causing great chaos. Three cruise ships reportedly had to change their unloading procedures after the US Coast Guard announced a temporary port closure and restricted traffic in and out of the port while the Florida and Wildlife Conservation Commission Fish investigate the accident. Stay tuned to this website for more details and further updates.
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