By: D.W.
A wall of ice at the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA, collapsed and injured three visitors, informed the owners of the enclosure.
The injured were taken to the hospital with unspecified injurieswrote Mary Kellogg Joslyn and John Joslyn on the museum’s Facebook page.
“Needless to say, we would never have expected an incident like this to occur, as the safety of our guests and crew members always comes first.” the owners said.
Titanic that opens and reopens
The ship-shaped museum closed after the incident but reopened Tuesday for those who already had tickets, according to local media. The owners said that the affected area has been blocked off and they estimate that it will take at least four weeks to completely rebuild the wall of the damaged artificial iceberg.
The Pigeon Forge Police Department said in a statement that the collapse appears to be purely accidentalthe Knoxville News Sentinel reported.
The Titanic as direct experience
The Cedar Bay Entertainment firm opened its Titanic Museum in 2010. The company has another museum dedicated to the same ship in Branson, Missouri.
The guests receive boarding passes containing the names of actual passengers or crew members they were aboard the British ocean liner that sank in 1912 on its maiden voyage, after hitting an iceberg.
Visitors can see more than 400 artifacts from the Titanic, gather “coal” in the boiler room, and feel the 28-degree water through self guided toursaccording to the attraction’s website.
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