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...closed- circuit television monitor in the engine room. One of the engineers on , watch saw that water was entering the ship near the bow doors. Believing it was only rain, the crewmen activated the bilge pumps. But within minutes the sea was pouring into the lower car deck near the waterline, and the ship began rolling heavily onto its left side...
...first," said Roger Kohen, spokesman for the International Maritime Organization, based in London. "That is something from the age of chivalry." Perhaps there was no time for chivalry aboard the Estonia. Many children, mothers and elderly people were asleep in cabins deep within the ship. Patrons in the upper-deck bars were mainly males. "In the circumstances, it is clear who will survive," said Dr. Steffan Torngren, of Stockholm's Soder Hospital, where 31 victims were treated. "It would be those who are most fit, those who are young, those experienced with the sea and the ship...
Instead of watching the Expos in the postseason for the first time in years, fans have been watching as general managers and managers were fired and then shuffled among teams, like a deck of cards, looking for jobs...
Survivors of the accident -- most of whom are men between the ages of 20 and 50 -- gave harrowing accounts to Plon. Said one Swedish man: "We had our berths furthest down below the car deck. We were three in the cabin and could not sleep. Then we heard a funny, scraping sound along the wall, and then the boat began to tilt. I immediately felt that the list was so severe that it would capsize. I ran as fast as I could. There was panic. Many ran and tried to get out, and many screamed. I saw many elderly people...
...remembers a night they spent cruising up the Hudson River at a wedding reception on a yacht. "Mike and I went up on deck, and we were the only two up there," she recalls. "We were slow dancing, and I was thinking about how romantic it was. And then Mike says, 'Do you have any idea how many dead bodies there are in this river...