Hundreds Stranded On Riverboat Cruise Trapped By Extremely Strong Currents
Emergency services were called to assist those on board the Edmonton Riverboat on the evening of July 13 after a strong current in the opposing direction meant the vessel couldn’t return to its dock in Rafter’s Landing, Alberta, on the North Saskatchewan River. “The boat was weighed down to the point where, even though it was going full-speed ahead, we were just matching the speed of the current and just floating in the same position,” Hayden Wilson, whose company SmartDrones was filming a commercial for Edmonton Riverboat at the time, told CBC....