how many passengers were on board at that time and how did they react lesson about what are the arabella was packed to full capacity at the time one hundred fifty passengers they acted like heroes i use this loud word deliberately they helped a lot they consoled the injured and there were doctors among the tourists on the arabella they assisted the ship's medic as he rendered first aid and they gave a lot of psychological support to survivors that was very important. and you would think that the people who survived the ship cracked all the journalists that when they found themselves in the water and the boat sank they were instantly cooled under that water that's the rock and then pumped out to the surface again one observer sat he thought it looked as though the sinking boat from the sort of funnel that put everything in what happens in reality the more that gets us out of course a sinking boat can pull objects floating on the surface under the water because of the huge water displacement that churns the water into wolf whirlpool that can suck people live with it but people who were afl

the captain of the arabella also added his own views to those of those two other captains he was in the vicinity as they were and he gave his own views on the public fury and the experts saying well maybe it was they didn't do such an awful thing let's hear what he had to say about that. and we were approaching the position of the tragedy with almost the same time as if we can't ship i don't know why he didn't stop maybe try to you know sort of heavy cargo wouldn't let him but as we approached the site its presence could only hamper the rescue operation and to proceed and not waste time so there's very mixed feelings now about the role of these two ships the rescue operation will shortly if they can recover the rest of these bodies be moving into its next phase and that is for two ships specially equipped to try and raise the sunken bowl garia and then it will be known hopefully in a proper investigation it can start as to why this ship sank and sank so fast causing so much tragedy. reporting there that we've got more on our website including footage of the recovery operation still unde

very difficult for them to pick people up and they may have actually hindered the third ship the arabella which came in did start to pick people up we earlier spoke to the captain an exclusive interview the captain of the arabella saying what he found when his ship arrived at the scene of the disaster. it happened really fast five to ten minutes after we heard the distress call as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water of people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock with some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil field that was leaking from the sunken ship it was a terrifying picture of the. captain of the arabella also added his own views to those of those two other captains he was in the vicinity as they were and he gave his own views on the public fury and the experts saying well maybe it was they didn't do such an awful thing let's hear what he had to say about that. when we were approaching the position of the tragedy almost at the same time as it could be cargo shi

when the arabella dr bull got it is one of the clowns stops. by the second birth of the bulgari it was tied to the first one they were leaving in eleven o'clock and we stayed till thirteen hundred hours when they were sailing off we had to maneuver in order to let the boat out and continue its cruise when we berth in the morning i went ashore and spotted the former captain of the boat in the current second mate of the bulgaria law to me a novel of in the center of the name jack he had worked with the bulgaria from the very beginning back in the times when she was called ukraine he was the captain of the ukraine but old age prevented him from remaining in charge because it is an exhausting post the captain works very hard and it's too charming for an old man but he realised this and decided to step down to the next position because it is easier and better for the older man he did not want to leave the bulgarian. crane his mothership and i approached him and we chatted a bit we shook hands and i asked him mr nasr of i should charge of sending at

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passengers and crew including the captain his wife and child never made it out meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived at the scene she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil fuel that was leaking from a sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up a few others were found. but divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something of the lives lost and families destroyed in those few terrible minutes but they've also been working on the question the cost so much why did the bulgaria sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from the ship grew so did the number of revelations about an ageing dangerous and badly managed