Talk:Duck tour

Requested move

This seem to be a more common usage. Simply south 21:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Is this a franchise? Or a single owner? Or independent businesses that simply share a name/theme? Ewlyahoocom 04:31, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

As far as i can tell i would guess the third one. Btw, it is not limited to te US. Simply south 11:40, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Then this should probably be moved to a neutral term, like DUKW tour (about 1,610 google hits) or Amphibious vehicle tour (76 google hits). And maybe that Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation template should be removed, too? Ewlyahoocom 05:26, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

What appears to have happened is that this page was originally created specifically for the company "Ride The Ducks International, LLC". Here's an old version. If it makes sense, I think we should probably revert Ride the Ducks to that, and for all the tour companies either expand the DUKW#Tourist attraction section or start a new page . Ewlyahoocom 06:34, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

OK, I've attempted to fix these up and now I don't think the move request is applicable so I will remove it. Ewlyahoocom 07:12, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Looks okay. Simply south 12:44, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

There are no more Aqua Duck Tours in Albany, NY

The Albany Aqua Ducks ended their tours in Albany, NY on July 15, 2012. They have been sold to another business in Key West, Florida. The reason for the sale was the fact that there was no new convention center built in Albany, (after a wait of a few years), the rising cost of fuel, and the decreasing amount of new customers. Plus, Albany, NY tours were limited to summer months, as it can get quite cold in autumn and spring, not to mention winter, when the Hudson river can freeze over. The ending of the run of Albany Aqua Ducks was a big local story, covered by all the newspapers and television stations in the region.204.80.61.133 (talk) 18:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)Bennett Turk

Liverpool Duckmarine sinking

The mischievous part of me says that this image ought to be added to the page.

Qeen Elizabeth II trying out a Duckmarine on her 2012 jubilee tour.

--wintonian ^talk 05:04, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Road accidents

A recent fatal road accident has been added, removed and re-added. I favour keeping this (although re-writing it to be more general). The problem is that DUKWs and Stollies are boats, not just trucks, and they have a bow in the way. Both of them have major blind spot problems around the front corners and this makes them somewhere between "needing care" and "downright dangerous". The fitness of these vehicles for use in city traffic has previously been questioned, particularly in Boston. There are also technical fixes available these days, with small cheap cameras. Should a DUKW in the city only be licensed (and licensed how) if it has blind spot cameras? Should it need an escort vehicle, or at least "Do not pass alongside" warning plates at the rear. This also relates to bendy buses, and the general problems of operating long vehicles with poor visibility in old cities. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:05, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

I reverted this because the way it was described looked like a road accident. The main criticism of duck boats is that they sink like stones if water gets into them. The article needs to explain why road accidents involving duck boats are notable.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 10:19, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

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Safety of duck tours

Re this edit: there was an element of WP:NOTAFORUM, but the article could look at the safety of duck tours. The 2018 Missouri incident is very similar to what happened to a DUKW when it sank during a storm in Lake Garda, Italy in April 1945, killing 25 American soldiers.[1] Even during WW2, soldiers knew that these vessels could sink rapidly if they took on water. In the UK in 2013, there was a call for duck tours to be banned [2] and the design of the boats has been questioned in the USA.[3][4]--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 08:59, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

So when the safety of DUKWs is questioned, or their restriction called for, and in sources better than the Daily Mail, we should report that. What we don't do though is to start a discussion here on "whether they are safe" (not our job to decide that) and "whether they need tighter control" (not our job either). Andy Dingley (talk) 09:14, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

I used the Daily Mail because this has the best coverage of the Lake Garda incident. Please don't be a WP:DAILYMAIL bore. The BBC, Reuters and TIME articles (if you actually got round to reading them) do question the safety of duck boats.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 10:25, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

The article fails to distinguish between original DUKWs and modern Duck boats, which have a much better safety record. Also, recent federal law sets new safety regs for DUKWs.C. Cerf (talk) 19:58, 6 January 2023 (UTC)