WTF? You expected them to be dressed like this?
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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I’m sorry, but this is a cruise boat ON A RIVER, and the Chinese still manage to sink it and kill maybe over 400 people?
What did you think they would be dressed in?
A fast moving river I imagine.
Hate to sound callous, but do these people not know how to swim? Fewer than a dozen out of 458 folks on board were rescued?
If I were on board and the ship began to sink, I’d be looking for an Ice chest, seat cushion...something.
It’s almost as if the majority of the people were packed inside this thing with lil way of escape or the river was raging. Something sounds off about the story.
Looking at the pictures, there appears to be little sloping bank lines. Wow.
“Not every news story belongs in Breaking News”
450 people dead but they’re Chinese so who gives a rip, eh? Now let’s get back to something more important, like what was Bruce Jenner wearing in that picture on the cover of Vanity.
Stunning photograph... beautiful pic.
From what I can gather the ship capsized very suddenly in a severe storm. So it is actually quite likely that most of the passengers were indoors at the time of the catastrophe.
RE “....450 people dead but they’re Chinese so who gives a rip, eh?...”
Unfortunately, sometimes people are pretty callous these days... and it’s not good. Those folks were someone’s mothers, fathers, children.
It’s pretty damned horrible.
Thank you for having a heart!
I think callousness is just a defense mechanism for some folks, sometimes. Easier to pretend you don’t care, than to admit that something is painful. I don’t think folks mean anything by it most of the time.
But we should attempt to keep our humanity, yes. Life is short, and tragedy is always around us somewhere. Closing our eyes to suffering doesn’t make it go away.
It was 9:28 p.m. and stormy outside. Not hard to get trapped when you are inside and the ship rolls. Especially for older folks. Damned shame.
According to the Chinese news chick on CCTV9 last night the ship was caught in an eddy or whirlpool sort of current and flipped upside down so quick no one could get anyplace. They found a few bodies downstream but that was it. They immediately had 150+ boats searching for floaters. The upside down part has to make one suspicious about who was doing weights/balances but other than that the poor buggers never had a chance to swim, tread, backstroke or anything else. Because it’s a river boat it doesn’t have life rafts but all are supposed to have vests. The ship was one of five in a cruise fleet, named the Eastern Star, and was “well regarded” -—until yesterday.
The world’s gone western ...pretty much.
In 1865 the Sultana sank in the Mississippi River after a steam boiler exploded and the ship burned. The ship had been overloaded with Union soldiers on their way home just after the Civil War. The exact death toll will never be known but it is at least 1500. It remains the deadliest maritime accident in American history.
Video Footage Records Rescue of Senior Passenger Aboard Capsized Ship
I have no idea why someone would question nearly 500 people possibly killed shouldn't be in braking news.
You sound like Bob Beckel. He hates China, too.
Bruce is the ugliest girl I’ve ever seen on the cover of that magazine.
I feel so sorry for these young people, waiting for news of Nana. Many if not most Chinese babies are raised by the grandparents.
WTF? You expected them to be dressed like this?
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