Posted on 06/01/2015 8:58:32 PM PDT by NRx
BEIJING — Most of the 458 passengers aboard a chartered cruise ship were still missing on Tuesday morning more than 12 hours after it sank during a storm along the central Yangtze River, according to a report by Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency.
Fewer than a dozen people had been rescued, local news media reported, indicating that this could be the worst such disaster in East Asia since the sinking of the South Korean ferry Sewol last year.
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oh my. Prayers.
Not every news story belongs in Breaking News, our new FRiend.
I would say this one does. But then I’m not the post police.
Nothing about how large the ship was. That's a large group.
Crap Chinese boats sink every day.
Here’s five bucks - go buy some empathy...
Tragic. However its just a matter of time before one of those top heavy multilayered cruise ships capsizes in open ocean during a freak storm.
Wow, you’re a tough guy! I’m impressed.
Gosh, I hope this story doesn’t take Bruce Jenner of the front page../S
I’ve only read stories in the Japanese papers but according to that this was a tour group(s) made up mostly of elderly tourists. And to compound the misery, authorities seem more interested in interrogating the captain and crew about driving into a tornado than setting up rescue operations.
seems like there are more options on a river during a storm than, say, the open ocean. Or one of the Great Lakes.
It sounds like some of us have never contemplated taking a river cruise in China. Thousands of Americans and westerners take cruises on the Yangtse River every year. And the boats are probably all Chinese built to fit their locks and docks.
If that dam cuts loose, and I expect it will, nobody will remember cruise boats sinking on the Yangtze. They'll remember the day the Yangtze came to say hello to the Philippine Islands.
Prayers for those folks.
Then China can claim the Philippines as Chinese territory.
Wow, you would think with a state controlled everything they would have the best safety standards of any country, that they would have all the safety equipment and do some sorta safety drill at every port to make sure they are prepared in case something bad happens.
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