The low water level of the Danube has brought to light what are believed to be mammoth remains near the village of Ryahovo, in northeastern Bulgaria: this is reported by the Bulgarian National Radio (Bnr) on its website. Experts from the Ecomuseum with Aquarium of Ruse will recover the bones for analysis. The discovery was reported by a local resident, who spotted large bones on the riverbed, visible in many places where the water level has dropped below two meters.
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According to Professor Nikolay Nenov, director of the Regional History Museum of Ruse, quoted by Bnr, the find includes a jawbone, two tusks, and possibly a rib. “Scientists who conducted surveys on the site in previous years believed there could be remains. The area is now part of the Danube, but thousands of years ago it was probably a swamp,” Nenov said. The Ecomuseum with Aquarium of Ruse houses the remains of three mammoths that once inhabited the region.
186 tourists evacuated from cruise ship
The drought of the long Central European river has also caused problems for tourists. In fact, the Bulgarian border police have completed the evacuation of all 186 passengers of the Swiss-flagged cruise ship Viking Ullur, after it ran aground on the Danube in Bulgaria yesterday due to the low water level in the river caused by drought. This was reported by the Bulgarian news agency Bta.
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The vessel ran aground at river kilometer 817, opposite Gomotartsi and about 25 km upstream from Vidin, not far from the Serbian border. On board were 186 passengers from EU countries and 52 crew members. Passengers were left without food and drinking water after the ship, which was supposed to resupply in Vidin, failed to reach the port. The ship’s agent sent the French-flagged ship Vivaldi to recover them, but it was unable to get close enough, making the intervention of the Bulgarian border police necessary.
The transfer of passengers’ luggage is still ongoing on Tuesday. The fate of the 52 crew members remains uncertain, as the Viking Ullur could remain adrift for an extended period depending on navigation conditions and salvage possibilities, the Border Police said. Initial reports indicated that the drifting cruise ship was near Salcia, in southwestern Romania. It had departed from the Romanian town of Drobeta-Turnu Severin on Monday evening bound for Vidin. Several attempts to refloat it, made between Monday evening and yesterday morning, failed.
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