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l3v1ck
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News CLICKYSome daft reporters have been asking passengers if it was like being on the Titanic. I've have thought Herold Of Free Enterprise would be a much closer comparison.  
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Linux_User
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Yay, new failboat pictures. 
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belchingmatt
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"It was dark and cold, like the Titanic." 
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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l3v1ck
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I was originally thinking that they might refloat it and get it back to working order, but that damage looks very serious. Maybe it's too much trouble.
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jonlumb
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Aye, especially when you consider how many cabbins etc. are submerged, one would have thought it was likely to be a write-off. Quite impressive considering it cost £300m in the first place.
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belchingmatt
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It probably is repairable. That decision will be up to the insurers. In 2000 I fortunately missed a ferry trip that hit a big rock in the Agean, Express Samina. Looking at it out of nostalgia now I see that this ship was formerly known as the Golden Vergina.
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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ProfessorF
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I hear the hull's breached on both sides, and nobody know's caused it yet.
Either way, the cost to repair it would likely need to include not just hull repairs, but possibly a rewire and an engine rebuild/replacement, redecorating, equipment replacing etc.
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koli
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l3v1ck
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Is that all. I've have thought it would have been much more for a huge ship like that.
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steve74
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It's worth pointing out that at the moment around 70 people are still unaccounted for, possibly dead - I'm not sure joking about this is all that nice to be honest. Just saying.
With any luck, these 70 people have just made their way to shore and dispersed elsewhere, but I fear the death count could rise from the 3 already confirmed dead. Hopefully not...
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l3v1ck
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That's what a lot of the news programmes have been saying today. They think a lot of them have been taken in by the islanders. 70 seems a lot. It's not like it capsizes in a matter of minutes. From what I heard the only confirmed deaths were from people who jumped overboard. They (the 70) should have been able to get to safety.
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l3v1ck
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The number of missing has now dropped to 40.
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cloaked_wolf
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Wow. Didn't know about this until this morning. As above, count is down to 40 people.
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jonbwfc
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To be honest, I'm not sure anyone would have been killed if they'd gone into the water. You can't see it from those photos, but the ship capsized literally about 10 yards from the shore and about 200 yards from a port entrance. Even at night, people would have been able to see lights to swim towards. If there are 40 people lost, they must have been trapped inside in flooded parts of the ship. edit: This pic shows it quite well. This is not photoshopped at all...  Jon
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Linux_User
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They might have been killed if they'd jumped into the water and the ship fell onto them...
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