Posted on 02/03/2006 2:14:34 AM PST by hershey
The early morning news anchor on CBS in Boston read a breaking news report, just off the wires, that a Red Sea cruise ship with 1300 people had vanished off radar....
Bump.
Maybe the ferry collided with France's asbestos-filled Clemenceau warship that is being hauled to India for scrap, or the Greenpeace boats that are chasing it.
What the hell is so funny about 1300 people missing at sea?
Point taken.
kind regards
There is a tendency to cram as many passengers as possible onto the ferries – which is why I was thinking of the weather state. It doesn’t take much of a wave to capsize an overloaded ship.
This is certainly no occasion for cruelty. What a terrible disaster! If those pilgrims are from Southern ("Upper") Egypt, I would expect that most of them are probably "country" folk of limited means. Any decent person would feel for them and their families.
Lost ferry-boat: floating bodies found close to the Egyptian coasts
CAIRO - floating bodies were located Friday by helicopters at sea Rouge with broad of Egypt, after the loss of contact with a ferry-boat transporting 1.300 passengers, as a majority of the Egyptians, according to a source of safety.
The bodies were located to around fifty of nautical miles of Safaga, city located at more than 600 km at the south-east of Cairo, according to this source.
The Egyptian ship, Al-Salam 98, left the Saoudi port of Douba, were to accost in Safaga with 02H30 local (00H30 GMT). But the contact was lost with the ferry-boat and the maritime and air teams of rescue were put in state of alert.
It transported 1.300 people, 22 cars, 16 trucks and 5 freight vehicles of the goods, according to a source of safety.
The governor of the Red Sea, Bakr Al-Rachidi, indicated on his side that all the ships present in the zone had been alerted of this disappearance.
yes, thirteen hundred would be the actual safe operating capacity of the vessel as built. we know that in that part of the world, you can probably safely double the number of people on board, even maybe triple is a safe bet.
ADVICE TO ALL FREEPERS. NEVER BOARD AN OVERLOADED HAJJ FERRY FOR YOUR OWN GOOD.
Remember years ago a Saudi 747 carrying pilgrims crashed ..the cause was a passenger who lit a charcoal brazier inside the plane to cook his dinner...
You are right. No matter what one might think of muslims, egyptians or whatever, this is a tragedy and you should show compassion. And if that is above you then shut up.
i thought it was a dc 10 that crashed due to the bedouin cooking his own goat meat on the charcoal grill. btw, where would put a charcoal grill on an airplane, and wouldnt other passengers notice the grill and meat etc etc?
CAIRO-PLANE SPOTS LIFEBOAT WITH PASSENGERS NEAR WHERE FERRY DISAPPEARED IN RED SEA - EGYPTIAN HEALTH OFFICIAL
THE OTHER PASENGERS WERE BUSY SLAUGHTERING THE GOAT
Yep, vanished because it sunk: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EGYPT_CRUISE_LINER?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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