{"id":64291,"date":"2025-07-21T00:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/tourist-vessel-capsizes-in-ha-long-bay-killing-at-least-35-people\/64291\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:42:11","slug":"tourist-vessel-capsizes-in-ha-long-bay-killing-at-least-35-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/tourist-vessel-capsizes-in-ha-long-bay-killing-at-least-35-people\/64291\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist Vessel Capsizes in Ha Long Bay, Killing at Least 35 People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of passengers have died in the capsizing of a passenger vessel in Ha Long Bay, an area east of Haiphong which is world-famous for its towering islands.<\/p>\n<p>Ha Long Bay has a thriving tourism industry, and millions of visitors come to the area every year. On Saturday, one of the many tourist boats that operate in the region &#8211; the <em>Wonder Seas<\/em> &#8211; was under way on a routine sightseeing excursion. The majority of the ticket-holders were local families from Hanoi, and about 20 passengers were children. At about 1530 hours, a sudden thunderstorm swept in with high winds and heavy rain, capsizing the vessel, according to local police.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Video of border guards urgently rescuing passengers whose boat capsized in Ha Long Bay <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/StPnmZl2xA\">pic.twitter.com\/StPnmZl2xA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Kh&acirc;u (@AdamKhauX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamKhauX\/status\/1946758935068963044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Foul weather complicated the initial response, but nearly 30 vessels responded to the scene, along with a team of rescue divers. The official numbers for&nbsp;victims and survivors have fluctuated over the course of the ongoing response effort, a reality of a rapidly-unfolding emergency situation. As of Sunday, local Vietnamese sources reported that 35 or 37 people were confirmed dead, including at least eight children; five more individuals were still missing, and 10 people were rescued alive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At least two survivors had to swim out of the submerged vessel to reach the surface, indicating a rapid capsizing with limited time for passenger evacuation. One other survivor was found by divers inside an air pocket within the upturned hull.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The vessel has been righted, dewatered and towed back to shore for examination. Search operations continue, with backing from Vietnam&#039;s military and on-scene oversight from Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha. National authorities have promised a thorough investigation of the circumstances of the casualty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;[Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh]&nbsp;extended his heartfelt sympathies to those affected and expressed deep condolences to the families of those who lost their lives,&quot; state media outlet Vietnam News Agency said in an urgent bulletin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of passengers have died in the capsizing of a passenger vessel in Ha Long Bay, an area east of Haiphong which is world-famous for its towering islands. Ha Long Bay has a thriving tourism industry, and millions of visitors come to the area every year. On Saturday, one of the many tourist boats that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4489,13515,27695,7441,1923,2771,15968,549],"class_list":["post-64291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-bay","tag-capsizes","tag-ha-long-bay","tag-killing","tag-long","tag-people","tag-tourist","tag-vessel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/64292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}