Roughly 600 passengers were stranded on a ferry that ran aground near Bainbridge Island around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, no injuries have been reported.
, according to Washington State Ferries, a division of the state Department of Transportation.
A photo taken by a Coast Guard officer showed the vessel near the shore as people looked at it from the beach and snapped pictures. A tug was positioned at one end of the ferry with an apparent Coast Guard boat nearby.Passengers were initially kept onboard. One passenger suffered a medical emergency unrelated to the grounding and necessitated an evacuation, the agency said.
"When we impacted it felt like an earthquake," said Kyle Bulger, a passenger on-board. "We shuffled around, it moved everyone around and everyone was confused." Tugboats were brought in to move the ship, however, they are trying to avoid any further damage to the hull of the ship by dragging it while the tide is low.
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