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admiral no human a passenger liner sailing in the black sea. august thirty first line g.e. ships. twenty three twenty. four kilometers off shore. crashes into another vessel. four hundred twenty three people die. russian titanic. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. that they are watching r t let's get you up to date now on today's top stories chasing

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a naughty. always thirty first nine hundred eighty six at ten pm the joint passenger liner admiral not he says sail from the soviet portal and over the seas on a cruise of the black sea. there are more than a thousand passengers and crew members aboard. the large boat kerry appeal to fully laden with canadian wheat is set to enter a port the two will converge fourteen minutes before midnight the freighter will ram into the storm inside of the lord at full speed the ship will sink in a record eight minutes taking more than four hundred people thousands will treat grave it was the greatest disaster in the history of the soviet fleet. always the thirty first of each year

a ship sets off from the pair of know what are seas it leaves the same as bay to embark on an unusual mission one she's at sea she stops for an hour over the site where the crews are. fleas the souls of those who perished only ask the foyer merz she'll log on murray she. most of the passengers on this memorial trip a survivors of the disaster and the relatives of people who died aboard the net he most of alexander goose of his among those who attend this yearly event but he was not on the night he moved that day none of his relatives died in the disaster in one thousand nine hundred six he was in command of a patrolling motor boat the captain has vivid memories of a luxury a ship entering port yet he had no idea that that twelve hours later he would be saving the lives of those who were on board a failure within a feat of came in around nine of the tree of to right here. and it's attracted our

attention especially because we haven't seen her in such a long time with your beautiful sheep indeed two finals and a sheep preserve to do all for your. people came in droves to take a look at the night he moved as she sat more just outside the marine passenger terminal the lawyer was generally claimed as one of the most impressive and comfortable ships cruising on the black sea yes i used to share a small flat with my parents and it was a cheerless drab existence when i was a child i got to the name of ship for many times and life became magical. it was an enormous and beautiful lynette with many restaurants and go to start off. all the interior of the ship was made out of a very expensive karelian board so even the grand piano.

these people never met although they lived in the same city but they might have met a quarter of a century ago igor tellus and a friend decided to go on a cruise of the black sea during the nine hundred eighty six summer holidays their ambition was to sail aboard the neck of the most prestigious law of the day of the tickets were hard to get back to. getting it ticket was like a miracle for the lucky ones. my mother got hold of some tickets she was working at a regional administration for tourism. efren do mine was to go with me. but she couldn't because she had to study for you so i had to come alone. the excitement of passengers looking at the snow white line i was short lived it evaporated as soon as they boarded the ship and looked around. the movie i found it

for all our external glamour it was a rotten place inside. the future passengers clamoring for a ticket on the moon that he more had no idea that the ship would be scrapped after that run she was already more than sixty years old. the ship was originally constructed in germany in one nine hundred twenty five it was formerly known as the berlin for some time the line up operated transatlantic routes later she was conversed into a cruiser during the second world war the nazis used her as a military hospital ship. the berlin sank in one thousand nine hundred five after a torpedo attack and she hit a mine. into the soviet military a great deal of effort to raise the berlin. she was sent to the u.s.s.r. where she was refit it and renamed the admiral next e-mail although the line was

already in a state of great decayed nine hundred eighty six the crew was still trying their best to maintain her status as the most comfortable cruiser. the loan of both to the cinema to swimming pools a restaurant and several bottles each annoyed the ship band played for the passengers. but. the weather was just fine least of all tourists were strolling along the streets of navarre cease. joining me from going there were no telltale signs that the ship might be in trouble later on. you. remember we sailed from. ten pm. as soon as. he radioed to port traffic supervisor. to report the situation. he was told that only one. was about to enter the port. in

accordance with the rules the night he was to stick clear of the free but they made an exception. of the steamship line and so the freighter was ordered to give way to the passenger. went to his cabin leaving his assistant to. see it when they tell you don't ship the way from the pier me and my female friends who looked at the dublin want ten she said. the women i will never be able to find and i looked and said but. meanwhile he began to feel nervous of the freight it was headed directly for the law but made no change of speed or course. the captain of the pier. came with the freight it was going to give way to the. captain to change of the peel to reassure his opposite number by saying that

two ships would pass clear of each other however also gave no change speed course we should be sore the distance between the two ships was shrinking. to the left at first he changed the ship's course by five degrees five degrees and finally ten degrees. as i turned my hand in i saw the fries just make no right in front of me i realized then that twas about to ram into us during the race the captain of the offensive was looking at the radar display according to it his vessel in the passenger liner with pulse clear of each other in fifteen minutes past eleven one of his crew shouted to him that he saw an enormous ship heading for the fray took. immediate we commanded full speed. but by then it was too late the heavy boat kariya was not responding to the wheel and was

still heading for the net he moved at full speed. the fringes barreled through the starboard side of the passenger leaving a deep pool schools of metres wide. it was that's when the collision occurred everybody was sent crashing to the floor all the dancers to feel. as the turning of the cliff and hundreds of passengers were watching a movie in the ship cinema. you know this pool from the projectionists room when the collision occurred everybody watched the movie i loved him more than life that the. early remember the scene where a tank runs down a soldier who sees a kid appeal a trick runs over it fast its head in a fountain oh blood a shoots out of his mother that's exactly what i felt an impact use for the kind

that you get in a tram when the mergence are breaking schooled. the situation was made even worse by the fact that the bulkhead doors and cabin windows were open because of the heat and cool ventilation the deluge of water quickly flooded the ships. aircraft that time i was on the promenade dick my fellow sailors to make sure you know i would dream. when the deck suddenly swelled up. debris shot into the air and people started falling off. in one thousand nine hundred sixty serbin was only eighteen years old and he was the youngest crew member on board it was his maiden voyage on and he just as the ship was about to finish her service. i was at a loss i said for goodness sake dimitri what do we need to do now and then dimitris ordered to go to the cabin and batten down the windows quick i was only

a few metres away from the stern so i did just that with the lights had already gone out. and william instantly sense that the ship was doomed. well we had just enough time to dump the sixteen life rafts not that we're trying to do same in the port side but we only managed to drop one raft. to starboard almost too much each raft weighs one hundred eighty kilos. as sea water filled the. the ship listed heavily. three minutes later he was. told of the boat had to force those on board into one large mass or a few people could stay in place by clinging onto something that bolted to. the.

pileup of passengers came under attack from falling objects like their rolls of paint then cheese and the like they are. the people who takes during the collision had no hope the angle of the boat made it impossible for them to scramble out of the guts of the cruiser. the ships made it hard even for sailors to get about if they were newcomers to say nothing of the passengers on top of that ship the ship had been pledged into darkness that they in fact also displaced bulkheads endorse. several hundred passengers crowded on to the point right six minutes after the collision it was clear that the water was the only salvation. after climbing onto the deck i heard a cracking sound for something as she flew to new york i'd read somewhere that the

signals that the bulkheads a caving in under pressure of water. and that means the end of the story. you had to fulfill the law i decided that there was no more time to tarrie i resolved to jump over the borders of. the then i saw that the list had already revealed the ship's underside. anyway i crouched down and began sliding towards the other side of the still wearing the white shoes that i had on that during a performance. the ladies he was still sliding down when i saw people stepped in as they shall cast the wind and i saw it with my own nice needle. but even if you abandon a sinking ship in good time this doesn't mean you are out of harm's way the sixteen lifer off stump by the sailors under the direction of the boat some. only one of three passengers had managed to put on the life jacket. the struggle for survival began around the sinking of law into one without rules or moral to booze.

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every year on the day of the. former commander of a patrol boat visits the. vivid memories of how before midnight he received an order urging him to get into his patrol boat and head to the site of the night he more accident as quickly as possible. when i arrived at the scene i saw a shiny. of the kind you see in a town as you look at it from a distance those lights from their live jackets. to arrive at the scene of the design. they began to pull. together and. side. so on i went over the rail and started taking people on this.

twenty minutes. in the continued. myself in the water i swam a short distance away from the ship suddenly i felt a weight pulling me down. around and saw a girl and i said to her look here if you want to stay alive all you need to do is hold onto me. not so i will side by side with the ship's doctor but when i saw he was about to drown a doctor he told me he couldn't swim and i don't and that was a big surprise there after all he was a grown man i took my life jacket off and put it on him. many of the passengers couldn't swim they tried to reach the rafts but the ones who go to the ropes for pushed away any others trying to hold on to them. and i guess i approached another

girl and offered my help if you're on formal not that she was clean to a log or. all but. i pushed the log forward many times before i saw a raft with a crowd of people claim to have a little bit of a side of the girl i'm going to push this log until we reach the raft and. we couldn't even approach it is more you but they keep us away. get that you showed some one and a half hours later you know they were pleasure boats but sporting green and red lights. they immediately set about taking people on board. everyone wishing to admire the town from the sea and take pictures as well on the board to steam out. to the face it has been in the business of taking tourists for a short ride around. here was an old ship the best part

of his life and. jacket another life saving equipment can be found under the seats. of two hundred rubles seven. don't know that in the early hours of september the first this ship captain. was taking passengers rescued from the net to safety. everybody was silent they were in a state of shock no cries no moans no bus nothing of that kind. this pleasure was the last trying to spot ship. at four am it became obvious to tim a face there was no hope of finding any more people. i spent sixteen days caring so-called packages. lifted to the surface by divers

it was such a horrible sight that i couldn't eat for the first three days but later became a matter of routine. the scale of the catastrophe became evident on the morning of september the first an inventory of who had been rescued should more than four hundred people have died in the tragedy. teams of. the crash site on the same day their job was to retrieve dead bodies from the sunken ship. we were to work around the clock with breaks. from other fleets like the pacific fleet the baltic fleet. but there was also a group from the special forces. of

a rescue ship used as a platform for diving it was around the. as soon as two dogs emerged on the surface and. this is the. most used by the. job the other was a standby just in case any shot of the bodies were put on this platform three to five bodies at a time then they were taken on board. this is the boat and sign a rescue ship twenty one. of the few journalists allowed to cover the operation he's been several days with the divers and sailors retrieving dead bodies and saw how tough the work was. to begin with was lying on its

side everything inside the ship was upside down. in the. floor what used to be in the left hand wall was the ceiling and divers had to descend into that unimaginable hell. physical exam the only problem. difficult to cope with the job of retrieving dead bodies. had a. caution entered it eighteen dead bodies standing in. weatherhead sat up against the glass. and so alex a evacuated all of the eighteen lot. by taking each by the hand to lead them out and. move all of us myself included who had never seen such a mass of dead bodies before. there would be a pile of twenty five to thirty five bodies on the deck at the time or. pressing

if that especially during the first week because leader such emotions became a rigid we had only one task to job done as fast as we could. the excruciating ordeal resulted in two more deaths on top of those that had been claimed by the next. one of the dogs as it stayed under water for too long eventually running out of oxygen the other became trapped inside the ship each time divers had to make their way through piles of furniture and broken partitions. were broken but the diver by the name of shouted a call got bogged down after furniture or paneling or something blocked the passage . he got stuck in it. when he asked for help it was told to hold on until another diver came to his rescue with the words. when

the diver reached him forty minutes later he was unconscious he didn't respond to questions all we heard through the microphone was his breath. you could be a diver was holding up the ladder and out into the open he stopped breathing. it was obvious that he was dead. because the rescue operation came to an end we don't swap the living for the dead was the verdict of the fleet. sixty four bodies was still inside the night he. an investigation underway into the of the two captains. to do one of the captains on september the first in the other on september the second. charges against him were formulated in accordance with the law. they were to be announced on september tenth

and eleventh. second mate who was at the controls at the time of the collision there and then captain mark over the law and captain took a chunk of the fray to win now the main defendant's. guilt was overwhelming he didn't want to give right away to a passenger ship and refused to change course he also tried to cover up incriminating evidence of to the collision by removing pages from his log book. initially when the scale of the disaster was unclear and behavior was brazen he didn't admit his guilt. the crash occurred because he had suddenly changed course shouldn't have done it. after reading newspaper reports detailing the number of deaths including. children.

completely. in the actions of both captains with criminal negligence and. sentence to fifteen years in prison. i was so happy to see the cheap when i was child new. head of the team of its foundation is a frequent visitor to this cemetery most of the crew members were born in this city . as grandmother. to serving on the ship for more than twenty years she died together with the vessel. i want you to know. my mother devoted ten years of her life to the foundation she created it from scratch i found in it with what little money she earned by doing on chumps.

just before the twentieth anniversary she was to have surgery when she felt she was dying which was the day before her death she said to me. this is the foundation must leave all the people should come here and there should be in the human museum in the similar and i promise to fulfill her wish. natalia's efforts have not been in vain although it was thirty first each year surviving passengers crew members of those who helped rescue people during that dreadful noise get together around this monument in stands on cape dog opus in the sword with the next e-mail saying the close has stand still always showing eleven twenty those who come to the memorial observe the minutes sort of i think exactly that tori and.