The incident began when the 34-metre catamaran ferry Princ Zadra struck some rocks in a shallow area just off Croatia’s Premuda Island at around 18:20 local time on Friday, November 15.
Officials of the Croatian Ministry of the Sea, Transport, and Infrastructure said that another vessel had been ordered to divert to the area off Premuda where the grounding occurred to evacuate the stranded passengers on Princ Zadra.