Lake Victoria, Tanzania: Hundreds feared missing as ferry capsizes

BBC ^ | 09/20/18

[entropy12]

I am sure that is true (because hippos are amphibious).

[Calvin Locke]

Oh, and then there's this one Sinking of MV Sewol.

I remember this because I had been watching MHZ the night before, and when I turned the tv on it the morning, it was running Arirang News, and it was THE story, for obvious reasons.

And the overload of this vessel made the "righting" attempts sluggish.

As for the captain: "[initially] Captain Lee also instructed passengers to stay put and did not change the order even as he was leaving the ship."

[bravo whiskey]

“Wasn’t there an autoferry on the Baltic that had its bow doors ripped open by waves, and it sank? “ Correct but the reason for the sinking was the doors had not been properly secured and thus the waves opened them. It was 100% human error. The vessel should not have sunk except for this human error.

i believe another issue was the lack of any internal bulkhead on the car deck. These would have slowed loading and off loading. once the bow doors were breached there was nothing to stop the water filling the entire car deck.