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now 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 port the two will converge fourteen minutes before midnight the freighter will ram into the storm side 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 pier of no what i see 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 cruiser is flees the souls of those who perished only ask the foyer merz shield law and mercy. 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 egg is among those who attend this yearly event but he was not on the night he most of 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. but in a scene 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 ship indeed two finals and the ship is rigged to do

all for. 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 acclaimed 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. an enormous and beautiful line it with many restaurants and go to start off with. 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 where 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 net humor of the most prestigious law of the day the tickets were hard to get back then. getting it ticket was like a miracle for the lucky ones. me a moment my mother got hold of some tickets she was working at a regional administration for tourism. a friend of mine who wants 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 was short lived in a vat for a to to soon as they boarded the ship and looked around. i found it for all her 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 rum she was already more than sixty years old. the ship was originally constructed in germany in one nine hundred twenty five and was formerly known as the berlin for some time the line operated transatlantic routes later she was converted into a cruiser during the second world war the nazis used her as a military hospital ship. the bolian psyching one hundred forty five ultra 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 refitted and renamed the admiral next email 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 lone opposed to

the cinema to swimming pools a restaurant and several bottles each annoyed the ship band played for the passengers. but if. the weather was just fine the rest of the tourists were strolling along the streets of nova receipts. joining me from the 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 next. of the free but they made an exception for the

. ship and so the freighter was ordered to give way to the. captain went to his cabin leaving his assistant in charge. when they tell you don't ship away from the career of me and my female friends looked at the bubbling wanton she said. i will never be able to survive and i looked and said. meanwhile he began to feel nervous that the free to 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 the two ships were clear of each other however. gave no change speed.

please ski saw that 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. you know. as i turned my hand in i saw there friday is the big battle right in front of me and i realized then that twas about to ram in too much sun during linguist the captain of the offensive was looking at the radar display according to it his vessel in the passenger liner with paul's 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 freighter to immediately commanded full speed. but by then it was too late for 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 i've been in the pub all the dancers too. as the turn of the cliffs and hundreds of passengers were watching a movie in the ship's cinema. you know this pull from the projectionists room when the collision occurred everybody watched the movie i loved him more than life the. early remember the scene where a tank runs down a soldier who sees a kid appeal it's wrecked runs over it fast its head in a fountain of blood a shoots out of his mouth 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. doors and cabin windows were open because of the heat and

cold ventilation the deluge of water quickly flooded the ship's. time i was on the promenade dick all of my fellow sailors were there to make sure you know i would. when the deck suddenly swelled up also that 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 meters 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. because of where 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 seawater filled the next. the ship listed heavily. three minutes later it was. the tilt of the boat had forced those on board into one large mass. 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 the paint benches

and the like. the people who takes during the collision have no hope the angle of the boat made it impossible for them to scramble out of the guts of the cruiser. the ship's design made it hard even for sailors to get about as they were newcomers to say nothing of the passengers on top of that ship the ship had been plugged into darkness that they in fact are also displaced bulkheads endorse. several hundred passengers crowded into the pool right six minutes after the collision it was clear that the water was the only salvation . to climbing onto the deck i heard a cracking sound or something. i thought i'd read somewhere that the signals that the bulkheads a caving in under pressure. 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 a performance. he was still sliding down when i saw people setting 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 sail is under the direction of the. only one of three passengers had managed to put on the life jacket. a struggle for survival began around the sinking of one without rules or moral to booze. wealthy british style the stock.

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patrol boat visits the. vivid memories of how. he received an order urging him to get into his patrol boat and head to the. accident as quickly as possible. when i arrived. on the kind you see in a town is you look at it from a distance those lights from their lives. to arrive at the scene of the. side. so on i went over there. and started taking people on this.

twenty minutes. continued. myself in the water i swam a short distance away from the ship suddenly i felt a weight pulling me down. i turned 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 roof 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 for michael not that she was clean to a log or they'll call but. i pushed the log forward many times before i saw a raft with a crowd of people claim to have a bunch of airports and i said to the girl i'm going to push this log until we reach the raft. we couldn't even approach it is more you but they keep this a way of going on to get that you showed up some one and a half hours later you're on the 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 has been in the business of taking tourists for a short ride around. the best part

of his life and. another life saving equipment can be found under the seats. a ticket costs two hundred rubles seven. don't know that in the early hours of september the first this ship captain. was taking the passengers rescued from the net he moved 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 them 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. 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. arrived at the crash site on the same day their job was to retrieve dead bodies from the sunken ship. told that we were to work around the clock without brakes. divers from other fleets like the pacific fleet the baltic fleet and the oracle. but it was and there was also a group from the special forces. in one thousand nine hundred six pavel dave was in

command of a rescue ship used as a platform for diving it was around the. as soon as two dives emerged on the surface and. this is the equipment similar was used by the divers one of them did a job the other was a standby just in case any shoddy bodies were put on this platform three to five bodies at a time of war then they were taken on board without the. wolf look this is a boat and sign a rescue ship twenty one. question was one of the few journalists allowed to cover the operation he spent several days with the divers and sailors retrieving dead bodies and saw how tough the work was. to begin with the night team of was

lying on its side everything inside the ship was upside down what had been the wall of a corridor known as the floor what used to be the left hand wall no it was the ceiling and divers had to descend into that unimaginable hell. physical exertion was not the only problem it was psychologically difficult for divers to cope with the job of retrieving dead bodies. through the ship had a glass promenade deck and looks h. a caution entered it he saw eighteen dead bodies standing erect with their heads out against the glass. and so alex a evacuated all of the eighteen law. 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 a time or. pressing effect especially during the first week because leader such emotions became. we had only one task to job done as fast as we could. the. deal resulted in two more deaths on top of those that had been claimed by the next. one of the divers 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. but the diver by the name of shouted a call got bogged down after furniture paneling or something blocked the passage. the smoke got stuck in a cable. when he asked for help it was told to hold on until another diver came to

his rescue when we were dealing. with and when the diver reached in 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 hauling about the to the ladder and out into the open he stopped breathing. it was obvious that he was dead. of to do it as 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 more . investigation got on the way into the road of the two captains. to do one of the captains on september the first in the other on september the second the charges against him were formulated in accordance with the law. of the

new they were to be announced on september tenth and eleventh. second mate should move ski who was at the controls at the time of the collision toyed there and then captain mark over the lorry and captain took a chunk of the free to wood now the main defendant's. guilt was overwhelming he didn't want to give right of way 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 the course shouldn't have done it. people did to the number of deaths including loss of life among children.

completely. in the actions of both captains were criminal negligence and. fifteen years in prison. i was so happy to see the cheap when i was child. head of the next team of its foundation is a frequent visitor to this cemetery most of the crew members were born in this city notorious grandmother. on the ship for more than twenty years she died together with the vessel. i want you to know. that i'm missing here. 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 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. 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 could not be in vain oldest 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 office in the sword with a neck see more of saying the cloaks has stand still always showing eleven twenty those who come to the memorial observe a minute's silence at exactly that torrent.