Duck tour

The Seafair Pirates in Seattle use a DUKW "Moby Duck" modified to look like a Spanish Galleon as their primary means of amphibious transport.

[citation needed] In Australia at the Rainforestation Nature Park at Kuranda in Queensland a fleet of DEEZs are used to take visitors through a typical rain forest environment.

The DEEZs travel along a tight twisty track through the forest before entering a small lake where their amphibious capabilities are demonstrated.

[9] A heavily modified DEEZ,s called "Normandie" has been in use at the Koksijde seaside (Belgium) for a number of decades, as a tourist sea excursion vehicle.

[11] Liverpool's 'Yellow Duckmarine' tours (a wordplay on the Beatles song Yellow Submarine) had 4 DUKWs in 2014, one of which saw service in the D-day landings.

The service carried over two million passengers in its 13-year life and was ridden by Queen Elizabeth II during her Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012.

[15] The DUKW vehicles were never intended to be used on public roadways, resulting in numerous blind spot where drivers are unable to see traffic hazards.

[17][18] On June 23, 2002, the Lady Duck, a custom-built vehicle converted from a Ford F-350 pickup truck, sank while on a cruise on the Ottawa River in Ontario, Canada.

The NTSB determined that the probable cause of the accident was the tugboat mate's (responsible for driving the tug at the time) inattention to his duties.

On May 8, 2015, a modern Ride the Ducks boat with an original DUKW chassis struck and killed a woman crossing the street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Chinatown section.

Witnesses at the scene say that the woman was distracted by her handheld tablet device and walked into the street against the red light and was struck while in the boat's front center blind spot.

[21] Although the police determined the driver was not at fault,[22] the victim's husband sued the company and the city, saying that the blind spots of the vehicle and the placement of the traffic light contributed to her death.

[26][27] On July 19, 2018, near Branson, Missouri, 17 people died and 7 were wounded after a DUKW capsized during a severe thunderstorm on Table Rock Lake.

[30][31] The incident resulted in the Maritime and Coastguard Agency withdrawing all safety certificates for the craft owned by Pearlwild and their entering administration.