Overview
- Twenty members of a Speyer rowing club were on a four-boat outing from Speyer to Worms when two sport shells overturned near Mannheim.
- The water was about 4.2°C, and fellow rowers helped the ten people who fell in reach the bank before emergency boats ferried them to a nearby beach area.
- Eight people were treated in hospitals for mild hypothermia, and two were kept overnight for observation, according to police.
- Fire services, police units from Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, the Wasserschutzpolizei, and a rescue helicopter responded.
- Authorities are searching for the overturned boats as the Mannheim water police examine river conditions and possible ship-generated waves.