Boo's Mom Posted February 3, 2006 #1 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Ship sinks in the Red Sea... http://www.ksat.com/news/6701604/detail.html?treets=ant&tml=ant_natlbreak&ts=T&tmi=ant_natlbreak_1_05420202032006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted February 3, 2006 #2 Share Posted February 3, 2006 According to Canada AM...the ship was a 70's vintage, and the design was very unstable...shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo's Mom Posted February 3, 2006 Author #3 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Hey Dan, It's very unfortunate. It will "scare" a lot of folks away from cruising. I hope the media will properly report the condition of the ship prior to sinking, etc... So, was it a CRUISE ship.... or just a ship that hauled passengers? Anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruisingChick Posted February 3, 2006 #4 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Hey Jill, I read it was a passenger ship (i.e. like a ferry) carrying mostly Egyptian workers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefootgirl Posted February 3, 2006 #5 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Hi, it was a passenger ferry, running between Saudi and Egypt, mostly carrying Egyptian workers home from Saudi. The authorities have picked up a few survivors in the lifeboats so far, but sadly not very many. I doubt this will put too many people off cruising... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted February 3, 2006 #6 Share Posted February 3, 2006 I understand...roll on/roll off ferry. The photo looks very much like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare geoherb Posted February 3, 2006 #7 Share Posted February 3, 2006 The Yahoo news article describes it as a ferry. The article goes on to say it was "carrying 1,318 people, including a crew of 96. It also was carrying about 220 vehicles." Wikipedia lists ship and ferry disasters here. Most of the recent ones--the ones with the largest number of fatalities--are ferries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonbon663 Posted February 3, 2006 #8 Share Posted February 3, 2006 It sounds like a whole bunch of things went wrong. <a href="http://www.TickerFactory.com/"> <img border="0" src="<A href="http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10726;128/st/20060723/e/Alaskan+Cruise/k/6a5a/event.png"></a">http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10726;128/st/20060723/e/Alaskan+Cruise/k/6a5a/event.png"></a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasetf Posted February 4, 2006 #9 Share Posted February 4, 2006 "Passengers said a fire broke out early in the trip and that it burned for hours." This is just too strange to be true. No SOS reported, and it was not know she sunk for a long time. Wonder if the Captain (or any of the officers) survived. :confused: And what their story will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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