# Ferry Diaster--the Captain Fled, & Abandoned The Innocent To Their Fate.

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**Created:** [February 4, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ferry-diaster-the-captain-fled-abandoned-the-innocent-to-their-fate/343006 "2006-02-04T18:31:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ferry-diaster-the-captain-fled-abandoned-the-innocent-to-their-fate/343006/1 "2006-02-04T18:31:22Z")

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This is grim.

[http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11157659/](http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11157659/)

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> SAFAGA, Egypt - Survivors of the Red Sea ferry disaster said on Saturday the Egyptian captain had fled his burning ship by lifeboat and abandoned them to their fate, as hopes faded of finding some 800 missing people.

Worse still–

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> Some passengers, plucked alive from the sea or from boats after the ferry caught fire and sank early on Friday, said crew members had told them not to worry about the blaze below deck and even ordered them to take off lifejackets.

Who would do this? :eek: 😕 :eek:

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> Survivors said a fire broke out below deck shortly after the 35-year-old vessel left the Saudi port of Duba on Thursday evening with 1,272 passengers and a crew of about 100.
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> The ship began to list but the crew continued to sail out into the Red Sea rather than turn back to the Saudi port, they told reporters in the Egyptian port of Safaga, where the ferry should have landed early on Friday.

And the Captain was explictly told of the fire, and ignored it.

He fled in a lifeboat, & cannot be found. He’d **better not** be found! :mad:

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**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ferry-diaster-the-captain-fled-abandoned-the-innocent-to-their-fate/343006/2 "2006-02-04T18:53:14Z")

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Ack! I’d hoped I was being extreme by bringing up memories of the Morro Castle and Oceanus.