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2006-02-03 Africa Horn
Egyptian Passenger Ship Carrying 1,300 People Sinks
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Posted by ed 2006-02-03 07:29|| || Front Page|| [11139 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Seething and BB (Blaming Bush) in 4, 3, 2... We had to do something, since RB was down for a few days! Who knows, maybe it was the Jooooooos or maybe Johnny Jihadi(tm) got some new toys to play with at the hajj and played with them a little too soon.
Posted by Halliburton, Hajj Ship Sinking Division 2006-02-03 09:49||   2006-02-03 09:49|| Front Page Top

#2 It was the Israeli Navy.
Posted by Hupoluling Snilet4192 2006-02-03 09:58||   2006-02-03 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 devil fish

rocks

stampede
Posted by RD 2006-02-03 10:02||   2006-02-03 10:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Probably not many passengers from the Haj - wrong port. Most pilgrims leave via Jiddah. Probably mostly Egyptian workers heading home to visit.
Posted by Chuns Angeaque5399 2006-02-03 10:18||   2006-02-03 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 ALLAN IS ANGRY!!!!!!

Holy Moly! Allan is been on a rampage lately.

1. December 2003: Allan causes giant earthquake in Iran; kills about 20,000.

2. December 26, 2004: Allan causes Tsunami that wipes out 260,000 people, most of them Allan-praying Mohammedans.

3. October 2005: Allan causes earthquake that killed 80,000.

4. Fall-Winter Period 2005-2006: Allan has fun with His annual Hajj stampede and building collapse. This year's disasters kills a combined 600-plus.

5. And now this: Allan causes storm and drowns hundreds of Mohammedans. Wow!
Posted by The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2006-02-03 10:54|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]  2006-02-03 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 3. October 2005: Allan causes earthquake that killed 80,000.

I should point out that Allan caused that earthquake in Pakistan, where many, many, many Mohammedans live.
Posted by The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2006-02-03 10:55|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]  2006-02-03 10:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Naturally, Egypt has declined the Israeli Navy's offer of assistance.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-02-03 10:59||   2006-02-03 10:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Top-heavy doesn't begin to describe it. I don't think the ships were designed to carry that number. A sister ship carrying pilgrims collided with a cargo ship back in October and sank. If I recall correctly, there were way more than 1300 people on board, most of them 'deck passengers'.
Posted by Pappy 2006-02-03 11:06||   2006-02-03 11:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Bubblehead has pictures showing the original versus current ship. Lotsa decks added.
Posted by 6 2006-02-03 12:50||   2006-02-03 12:50|| Front Page Top

#10 I looked at the pictures. Somebody took a conventional little passenger RO-RO and put a four-story office block on top of it. I'm no naval architect, but she looks like she'd roll over on you if you looked at her crosseyed. Ever heard of "metacentric height," boys?
Posted by Mike 2006-02-03 13:28||   2006-02-03 13:28|| Front Page Top

#11 This is looking extremely bad. Only 180 known survivors.
Posted by ed 2006-02-03 13:53||   2006-02-03 13:53|| Front Page Top

#12 That's terrible, ed.

I know they had some lifeboats - some people were picked up from them. Wonder if they didn't have enough lifeboats/life preservers, or if the ship just turned over too quick.

My first thought when I saw a picture of the ship this morning was how top-heavy it looked.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-02-03 14:48|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-02-03 14:48|| Front Page Top

#13 If she flipped over fast enough, the lifeboats on the side she rolled to would have been crushed by the ship. The ones on the other side might've floated free, but unless you were in the right place on one of the upper decks, you wouldn't have a chance to get to one.
Posted by Mike 2006-02-03 15:33||   2006-02-03 15:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Inshallah.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-02-03 15:37|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-02-03 15:37|| Front Page Top

#15 That water is crawling with sharks and rays...

I remember as a kid going up toward the suez the men would pretend to shoot skeet off the ship and shoot sharks instead.

Posted by 3dc 2006-02-03 21:06||   2006-02-03 21:06|| Front Page Top

#16 Hopefully, it will take the area's mind off cartoons for a moment. Vent some justified rage at the right people.. for the right reasons.
Posted by Hupomoger Clans9827">Hupomoger Clans9827  2006-02-03 21:16||   2006-02-03 21:16|| Front Page Top

#17 Hopefully, it will take the area's mind off cartoons for a moment. Vent some justified rage at the right people.. for the right reasons.

Never happen. Allah meant for all those people to die on that ferry; there's absolutely nothing anyone could have done about it. Oh, sure, one of kaffirs would point to it being overloaded, to the modifications turning into a top-heavy disaster in waiting, and heck, I bet there's even solid evidence of government officials raking in cash to overlook the whole thing -- but that's just crazy talk, because Allah meant it to happen, and there's nothing that could have been done to stop it.

The cartoons, though, they're the act of men, and for it, those men must die.

*spit*

Like Tim Blair said, for there to be a clash of civilizations, there have to be two civilizations. From where I'm sitting, there's one civilization and a great big pack of barbarians. The barbarians are doing their damnedest to provoke us. I don't think they quite comprehend what that would mean.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-02-03 22:28|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-02-03 22:28|| Front Page Top

#18 By the passenger manifest, 324 have been rescued and 1100 are missing or dead. Any folks here know long one can survive in the Red Sea during wintertime?
Posted by ed 2006-02-03 22:49||   2006-02-03 22:49|| Front Page Top

#19 long one can survive in the Red Sea during wintertime?

Unfortunately, ed, probably just long enough to be eaten by 3dc's sharks. Even if the passenger's could swim, which I b'lieve in those parts is the hobby of rich men's children (there are lots of crocodiles in the Nile, I understand).
Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-03 22:59||   2006-02-03 22:59|| Front Page Top

#20 I'm assuming most were trapped in the hull. I was wondering if those few who grabbed onto flotsam could survive the night.
Posted by ed 2006-02-03 23:05||   2006-02-03 23:05|| Front Page Top

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