An outdated video of a ferry capsizing after being battered by sturdy winds and waves has been recirculated by social media customers who falsely declare it reveals a lethal vacationer boat sinking throughout a storm in Vietnam’s Ha Lengthy Bay on July 19, 2025. The clip was revealed earlier in Vietnamese media experiences concerning the impression of Hurricane Yagi in September 2024, one of many area’s strongest storms that yr.
“Vietnam: A vacationer boat sank whereas touring in Ha Lengthy Bay after dealing with sturdy sudden winds from storm Wipha, inflicting 34 fatalities,” reads the Thai-language caption on an X put up dated July 19, 2025.
The caption continues: “Authorities are urgently looking for dozens of lacking people.”
The put up features a video of a ship being lashed by wind and rain earlier than slowly tilting to the precise and capsizing.
A minimum of 35 folks have been killed when the vacationer boat capsized throughout a storm on July 19 in what some have referred to as Ha Lengthy Bay’s worst catastrophe (archived hyperlink).
Screenshot of the false X put up, with a crimson X added by AFP
Nonetheless, native media quoted the director of the nation’s Nationwide Middle for Hydrometeorological Forecasting saying the thunderstorms in northern Vietnam weren’t attributable to the affect of Tropical Storm Wipha within the South China Sea.
The identical video of the boat sinking was linked to the July catastrophe elsewhere on X and Fb, in addition to in English and Burmese-language posts.
However a reverse picture search on Google discovered the video was revealed on-line months earlier in experiences a couple of totally different storm.
The footage was revealed on the verified Fb web page of Vietnamese media outlet VTC Information on September 7, 2024 with the caption “Vacationer boat capsizing in Ha Lengthy Bay” (archived hyperlink).
Screenshot comparability between the false X put up (L) and the video posted on Fb by VTC Information
Different Vietnamese media retailers revealed the clip in experiences from September 7 and eight, 2024 about storm quantity three — the native title for Hurricane Yagi (archived hyperlinks right here and right here).
The tremendous hurricane killed not less than 197 folks in Vietnam as its related heavy rains introduced flooding and precipitated landslides. 1000’s extra needed to be evacuated because the storm disrupted export strains throughout the Crimson River delta (archived hyperlink).
Shipwreck Log, a weblog that paperwork shipwrecks and maritime accidents, reported that a number of boats have been broken or sunk as Hurricane Yagi made a landfall in Vietnam and included the identical footage of the black and white ship sinking (archived hyperlink).
The vacationer ferry that capsized in July 2025 will be seen in AFP pictures that present a blue and white vessel with totally different railings.
Screenshot comparability between the video within the false posts (L) and the AFP photograph
