The passenger of the boat that sank in the Gulf of Finland died shortly after being hospitalized. This was announced on the night of July 22 by the press service of the Western Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the RF IC.

“As a result of the flooding, people were rescued and taken ashore, one person with bodily injuries was taken to a medical facility, where he later died,” the agency said in a statement. Minion of the ship: in Russia they began to rent boats to people without the rights of GIMS Experts warned about the risks of renting ships by unprepared citizens 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Production, storage, transportation or sale of goods and products, performance of work or provision of services that do not meet safety requirements”).

According to one of the versions, a technical malfunction in the form of a broken exhaust pipe of the ship could have led to the accident.

The crash of the Carver-41 pleasure boat in the waters of the Gulf of Finland in St. Petersburg became known on July 21. There were nine people on board at the time of the accident. No oil spill was recorded.Share: