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Toilet closed - ship stuck
The "King" on Aug 18, 2011, at 7.30 p.m. ran aground outside Lauttasaari in Helsinki. 54 people were on board the ship. Some passengers were bruised and tableware was broken in the incident. The passengers should be evacuated to a sister ship. The waterbus was making an archipelago cruise. It starts from the Market Square (Salutorget). The cause of the accident was that the captain was locked on the toilet and was unable to get the door open. He yielded for help, but when a crew member had the door open, it was too late. In spite of an attempt of another crew member to slow the ship down, it ran onto a rock. The coastguard started investigations whether the captain's actions amounted to criminal endangerment.
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