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titanic not a dream job experiencing it but only a lucky few managed to get their hands on tickets but also luck rating and find out now on. always thirty first nine hundred eighty six to ten pm the joint passenger liner admiral 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. meanwhile the large bulk carry 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 stall 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 pair of know what i see sc it leaves the same as bay to embark on an unusual mission once she's at sea she stops for an hour over the site where the cruiser is please god bless the souls of those who perished only ask the foyer merz shuttle launch 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 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 the luxury of a ship entering port he had no idea that twelve hours later he would be saving the

lives of those who are on board. with those in a scene of came in around nine with 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 riveted 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 following it 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 line it 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 telus 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 of 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 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 was short lived it

evaporated as soon as they boarded the ship and looked around. the move i found it for all our external glamour it was a rotten place inside. the future passengers clamoring for a ticket on the atmel now he moved had no idea that the ship would be scrapped after that 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 converted into a cruiser during the second world war the nazis used her as a military hospital ship. the berlin sign can one hundred forty 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 refitted and renamed the admiral next email although the lawyer 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. solo in a boasted a cinema to swimming pools a restaurant and several bottles each night the ship band played for the passengers . but. the weather was just fine least of all tourists were strolling along the streets of nova receipts. joining me from that there were no telltale signs that the ship might be in trouble later on. you. remember we sailed from. ten pm. as soon as the pier 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. 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 away from the pier me and my female friends looked at the bubbling wanton she said. i will never be able to find and i looked and said but i will. meanwhile he began to feel nervous at the freight it was headed directly for the law but made no change of speed or course. radioed the captain of the pier. came with the freight it was going to give

way to the. captain to the peel to reassure his opposite number by saying that two ships would pass clear of each other however. 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 there friday is the combat zone right in front of me and 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 night he moved at full speed. the freight is barreled through the starboard side of the passenger leaving a deep pool schools of metres wide. it was the 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 at 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 imperative for the kind you get in a tram when the merchants 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 cold ventilation and the deluge of water quickly flooded the ship's. time i was on the promenade deck careful with my fellow sailors and 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 eighty six. 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 in order to go to the cabin and batten down the windows quick but i was only a few meters away from the stern so i did just that with the lights had already gone out. instantly sense that the ship was doomed. well we had just enough time to dump the sixteen liferaft it's not that we're trying to the same on 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 night he moved the ship listed heavily to. three minutes later he was. with the tilt of the boat had forced those on board into one large mass with

a few people can stay in place by clinging onto something that bolted to. me at the . pileup of passengers came under attack from falling objects like their rolls of paint been cheese 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 also displaced bulkheads endorse. several hundred passengers crowded into the pool right six minutes after the collision it was clear that the water was that only salvation. to climbing on to the

dick i heard a cracking sound or something. i thought i'd read somewhere that the signals that the bulkheads are 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 overboard as a. letter 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 the performance. got the ladies really still sliding down when i saw people setting as they shall cast the wind a little and i saw it with my hair nice needle. good even if you abandon a sinking ship in good times this doesn't mean you are out to sway the sixteen lifer off stump by the sailors under the direction of the boat when nelson. only one half of three passengers had managed to put on the life jacket. the struggle

for survival began around the sinking of one without rules or moral to booze. the close up team has features. where russia first free elections were held a few thousand years ago. now party goes to the area that used to be a place of exile since the seventeenth century. where businesses take advantage of the wild growing products. more rich academic life gives birth to the fate of idea come to the top screech crusher close up.

in hotels for. grand. hotel princess radisson hotel one called dream hotel bangkok. plaza anthony. every year on the day of. patrol boat visits the. vivid memories of how. he received an order urging him to get into his patrol boat and head to the site of the night he 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 are on their live jackets. to arrive at the scene of the desert. began to. gather and. so on i went over the railing 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. 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 roof. but the ones who go to the ropes first pushed away any others trying to hold on to them. and i guess i approached another girl and offered my help but if you're on form i'm 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 lot of very poor eyesight of the girl i'm going to push this log until we reach the raft. we couldn't even approach it more your but they keep us away. 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 the 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. of two hundred rubles seven. i. don't know that in the early hours of september the first this ship captain. was taking the passengers rescued from the net to safety.

everybody was silent they were in a state of shock no cries no moans no nothing of that kind. this pleasure boat was the last trying to spot ship. people. 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. 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.

on the same day their job was to retrieve dead bodies from the sunken ship. that we were to work around the clock without brakes. divers from other fleets like the pacific fleet the baltic fleet and the oracle. group and there was also a group from the special forces. day of was in command of a rescue ship used as a platform for diving it was around the. soon as two dives emerged on the surface and. this is the equipment. used by the. one of them did the job the other was a standby just in case any shoddy bodies were put on this platform three to five

bodies at a time then they were taken on board. this is a sign a rescue ship twenty one. question was 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 wall of. 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 it was psychologically difficult for us to cope with the job of retrieving dead bodies. had

a glass. of caution entered it he saw eighteen dead bodies standing in. wrecked weatherhead sat out against the glass but he remembered to screw with him so alex a evacuated all of the eighteen lot easier 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 joe. 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 divers

had 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 politicians. were. the diver by the name of shouted a call got bogged down after furniture paneling or something blocked the passage in the smoke it got stuck in. there but 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. of trudeau it was 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 kept in. and captain took a chunk of the freighter with 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 or. the crash occurred because he had suddenly changed course shouldn't have done it. after reading a newspaper report detailing the number of deaths including loss of life among children. completely. in the actions of both captains were as criminal negligence and. sentenced to fifteen years in prison. i was so happy to see the chief when i was child. head of the team of its foundation is a frequent visitor to this cemetery most of the crew members were born in this city

notorious grandmother. to serving on the ship for more than twenty years she died together with the vessel. is your left. 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 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 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 opus in the sword with the next see more of saying the cloaks has stand still always showing eleven twenty those who come to the memorial observe the minutes sort of at exactly the towing.