10/02/2005 5:15:48 PM PDT
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This afternoon, in Lake George, NY, 21 senior citizens drowned while on a short, probably just a couple of hours, cruise. There were arouund 49 passengers on the boat. They were not wearing life jackets.
<p>Ten current and former Staten Island Ferry workers say last Monday was the first time the city ever notified them of a rule requiring the captain, rather than the assistant captain, to be in the dockside pilothouse every time the boat lands - a rule the city says Capt. Michael Gansas broke during the fatal ferry crash two weeks earlier.</p>