[kingu]

And don’t they overload those ferries by factors, too? Why don’t they build more ferries, so they can carry less?

Reports say that the ferry had a capacity of nearly 2,000, and it sailed with only six hundred passengers, with a hundred and twenty crew, so in this case it wasn't an overloaded ferry. And apparently the ferry set sail well before the storm, and lost engine power en route. Ferry in the open water with no engines in the middle of a typhoon is the cause of loss.

[sushiman]

” And apparently the ferry set sail well before the storm, and lost engine power en route. Ferry in the open water with no engines in the middle of a typhoon is the cause of loss. “

They set sail well before the storm but help couldn’t arrive in time ? Something doesn’t add up .

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Got it. Must have missed that; thx. Explains a whole lot, now.