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...vessel rolled over, hundreds of passengers were hurled about interior waiting rooms, restaurants, bars and duty-free shops. "We were trying to find things to hang on to," said Maureen Bennett of Sussex. "It was so frightening." Said Clifford Byrnes of Coventry: "It all happened in a minute. Glasses started sliding on the tops of tables and then smashing. People began falling down. You could see the water through the portholes. Then the lights went out. Everyone started shouting...
...first couple of hours of the frantic rescue effort, officials held out hope that passengers might still be alive in air pockets inside the vessel. But doctors pointed out that potentially deadly hypothermia sets in soon after submersion in icy water, and by the time the rescue operation was suspended early Saturday morning, no real hope remained for those who had not been found...
...sandbar as it made its way out of the port. But surviving passengers did not report feeling any sudden impact. Whatever happened, the bow doors of the cavernous vehicle deck, which was holding 88 cars and 36 trucks, suddenly swung open. The car deck flooded, causing the vessel to tip over. Peter Ford, managing director at Townsend Thoresen, the British company that owns the Herald of Free Enterprise, acknowledged that "somehow the doors burst open and the water rushed...
Iran, which retaliates for Iraqi strikes on its tanker routes on a ship-for-ship basis, sent a frigate to raid the Indian tanker Spic Emerald in the southern gulf. The vessel was carrying a Yugoslav-bound shipment of volatile petrochemical called ethylene dichloride, or EDC, loaded at Saudi Arabian ports...
Iraqi warplanes fire Exocets from a considerable distance, which means the missiles can mistake any vessel in Iranian waters for an Iranian tanker. The Baghdad government has pledged to impede its foe's oil exports...