updatedJul 26, 2022, 7:43 p.m
Zürich“The overweight men stood on one side until the pedalo capsized”
A group of Eastern European tourists capsized on Monday evening with a pedalo at the port of Enge. The chairs of his pedal boat are now at the bottom of the lake, says boat rental company Andreas Ingold.
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On Monday evening, a pedalo capsized at the Enge port in Zurich.
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A group of Eastern European tourists rented the Pedalo from Enge Boat Rental.
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“This is probably the first time in my time as a boat rental company that a pedalo has capsized,” says tenant Andreas Ingold.
A small rubber dinghy drives past the Enge harbour, towing a capsized pedalo behind it. A man wearing a life jacket is clinging to the pedal boat. The scene captured on video took place on Monday evening on Lake Zurich, as “ZüriToday” reported. Accordingly, a group of tourists in the Zurich lake basin suffered shipwreck following their pedalo capsized.
The Zurich water police were not involved in the rescue operation. As 20 minutes knows, Enge boat rental employees rushed to help the tourists. There they had rented the pedalos. As tenant Andreas Ingold says to 20 minutes, the group consisted of three middle-aged men from Eastern Europe. Two of the three tourists were severely overweight. “When two of the three men tried to push the third person into the lake, they clung to the pedalo because they mightn’t swim.”
Because all three people were standing on one side of the boat, it tilted. “This is the first time during my time as a boat rental company that a pedalo has capsized,” says Ingold. “These are actually extremely robust and stable.”
“Gave us trouble and effort”
Since the men were wearing vests, they were fortunately not harmed. However, the pedalo’s chairs had been thrown out and were now lying on the bottom of Lake Zurich. ‘Now we have to use a diver to find her and bring her up. The search might be very difficult due to the indeterminate position and difficult visibility at this depth.” He may therefore need the help of the water police. One thing is clear: “These men gave us a lot of trouble and effort.”
The pedalos are real vintage cars that were manufactured in Diessenhofen in Thurgau in the 1950s and 1960s. «In contrast to cheaper plastic models, our pedalos are made of robust aluminium. You can’t buy them like that anymore,” says Ingold. Accordingly, any spare parts would have to be ordered to measure. That might quickly add up to money. “If we have to remake the chairs, it might quickly cost a four-digit amount.”
The pedalos date from the 1950s and 1960s and were manufactured in the canton of Thurgau.
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