Overview
- Police say the 102-meter vessel began taking on water around 16:50 Wednesday while sailing from Nuremberg toward Bamberg, and the crew sealed a bulkhead to confine flooding to the bow.
- The ship, reported in local coverage as the Johanna and weighing about 1,806 tons, is moored safely in Fürth harbor with no injuries reported.
- More than 100 responders, including DLRG, Wasserwacht, fire service divers, and police, secured the scene and deployed an oil containment boom as a precaution.
- The Main–Danube Canal was closed temporarily around the incident and was later reopened after the vessel was secured.
- Investigators from the water police and an external expert will examine the hull after unloading, with drifting ice considered a possible but unconfirmed cause.