Herald of Free Enterprise remembered

[TheMightyTen]

30 years ago today 193 people lost their lives due to a catalogue of bad practice and negligence in an idustry that had become complacent and safety ignorant.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39116394

Really doesn't seem like 30 years as I remember it so vividly. We used to use the cross channel ferries a lot back then and events that led to her sinking were not that rare as we well knew from experience.

RIP the 193 and thoughts to the families of those that are still left.

 

[TheMightyTen]

90 seconds to capsize. I can't think of anything more terrifying to happen. Except if it's at night, like the Estonian ship.

It had just turned dark as she capsized at about 18:28 (19:28 Belgian time), all efforts to rescue were performed in the dark . There were some real heroic efforts shown that night.