Hong Kong’s iconic floating restaurant, the Jumbo Floating Restaurant, which left port a few days ago nearly half a century moored in the waters southwest of the city, has capsized at sea report American media and English.
The three-story, 80-meter-long ship that was once the world’s largest floating restaurant sank on Saturday near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, about 300 kilometers southeast of the Chinese island. from Hainan. According to the owner of the boat Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises, it was the adverse weather conditions that caused the accident.
No crew member was injured.
The Jumbo Restaurant once hosted personalities such as Queen Elizabeth II, Jimmy Carter and Tom Cruise.
He was experiencing financial difficulties which worsened with the Covid-19 pandemic.