We were evacuated off Jungle Cruise a few weeks ago. We were having a nice ride and suddenly, as we approached the hippos, the boat made a loud noise and abruptly stopped. Somehow the boat had “jumped” off the track.
I don’t think the skipper was driving too fast, so we really couldn’t figure out why we came off the track!
The skipper pulled out his gun and shot off 6 shots. This helps alert all the other boats that they need to stop immediately. Then, he got on his walkie talkie and called for help.
After about 30 minutes another boat came with a bunch of CM’s on it and an engineer came on our boat to see if he could get the boat back on the track. He was unsuccessful, so they needed to call in the divers to fix it.
We all evacuated from our broken boat onto the other boat and finished our ride. All together it was about a 45 minute delay, but we just had a good time relaxing and talking to all the other passengers.
The ride was shut down for quite a few hours after that while they got it all fixed and running.
I don’t think the skipper was driving too fast, so we really couldn’t figure out why we came off the track!
The skipper pulled out his gun and shot off 6 shots. This helps alert all the other boats that they need to stop immediately. Then, he got on his walkie talkie and called for help.
After about 30 minutes another boat came with a bunch of CM’s on it and an engineer came on our boat to see if he could get the boat back on the track. He was unsuccessful, so they needed to call in the divers to fix it.
We all evacuated from our broken boat onto the other boat and finished our ride. All together it was about a 45 minute delay, but we just had a good time relaxing and talking to all the other passengers.
The ride was shut down for quite a few hours after that while they got it all fixed and running.