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By Challiss McDonough
Cairo
03 February 2006

Rescue efforts are still under way to find possible survivors 1 of an Egyptian passenger ferry that sank in the Red Sea early Friday, carrying roughly 1,400 people. There are conflicting reports about the number of survivors who have been rescued so far, with some sources saying it is about 100, and others saying it could be twice that many. It is feared that the death toll 2 will be high.

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Relatives wait next to entrance of port in Safaga awaiting news of friends and relatives who may have survived ferry sinking  
  

Dramatic television footage showed helicopters plucking survivors out of the water and off of life rafts in the rough waters of the Red Sea.

Red Sea provincial 3 Governor Abu Bakr El-Rashidi told VOA that nightfall would not stop the rescue efforts.

"Rescue operations are still going on and will continue," he said. "God willing, rescue operations will continue."

It is not yet known what caused the passenger ferry to sink en route from the Saudi port of Dubah to the Egyptian port of Safaga. Officials say severe weather and rough seas could have been a factor.

The governor said search-and-rescue operations began early Friday, as soon as authorities realized that the ship had not arrived on schedule. But reports from the Red Sea say high winds and rough waves hampered 4 early rescue efforts.

Andrea Odone is an official with El-Salam Maritime 5 Transport, the company that owns the ship. He said it looks like it sank without warning.

"No, there were no distress 6 calls," he said. "No distress was recorded from the satellites or whatever."

News agencies say it is true that no distress signals were heard at the ports on either side of the Red Sea. But the official MENA news agency says another ferry, the St. Catherine, did receive a distress call from the captain of the doomed 7 vessel 8. It is not clear what the St. Catherine did next.

A distress signal was also picked up by a British air force base in Scotland, and reportedly relayed to Egyptian authorities via France.

The transport company's Andrea Odone would not speculate on how the disaster occurred.

"We do not have and we cannot confirm anything about how many lifeboats have [been] launched or whatever," he said. "What we can say is the vessel is well equipped with safety devices for more than 2,000 passengers. For this part we are confident that the crew is well prepared. But at the moment we cannot guess the reason or whatever."

Egyptian authorities have launched an investigation 9 into the accident. A spokesman for President Hosni Mubarak said the speed with which the ship sank indicated a possible safety problem. He also indicated that there may not have been enough life rafts aboard.

A sister ship owned by the same company sank in October after colliding with a Cypriot commercial vessel. Two people were killed in that accident.



幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
adj.省的,地方的;n.外省人,乡下人
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
  • So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
adj.海的,海事的,航海的,近海的,沿海的
  • Many maritime people are fishermen.许多居于海滨的人是渔夫。
  • The temperature change in winter is less in maritime areas.冬季沿海的温差较小。
n.苦恼,痛苦,不舒适;不幸;vt.使悲痛
  • Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
  • Please don't distress yourself.请你不要忧愁了。
命定的
  • The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
  • A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。
n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管
  • The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
  • You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
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absorption sensors
airportage
al burghuliyah
aquae plumbi
axillary hair grafting
bandwagoner
billet pusher
Bookabie
brushoffs
bucket wheel trencher
carbon dioxide leakage
carcinosectomy
cerol colors
CFU-Blast
chat bot
chihsia age
Chloranthus henryi
Ciidae
cladoselachids
Clematis napoensis
colluvies
convergence indicator
corpora pampiniforme
cost of structures of water project
Daily Chart
decide
derecha
diameter breast height
differential class
digicorin
divert in
dripplekie
earthquake periodicity
Esaki
feed proportioning system
felicitated
field lateral
Fritillaria pluriflora
Galois
general patton
gerle
go at it
grid measuring system
haloalkaliphilic
helical Bourdon-tube
hepatomegalies
insect vector of rice virus
JSIT
Kilómetro 96
kingdom prokaryotaes
lawnmarkets
Los Alamos County
loved ones
low altitude alert system
low-energy path
Lowville
metalexicographical
millimeter wave amplifiers
multiple-word processing
N-methyl-N-nitro-p-toluenesulfonamide (MNSA)
narvas
Ningbo
non-permissive
not see beyond sth
not well maintained
overaccelerating
paleolongitudinal
parapronoe elongata
pedobaptisms
performance-boosting
platinum-blond
PMIC
pockmarked
polden
prepayment of freight charge
prodigence
prosenneahedral
psychomotor seizure
quartz-lens method
rationalizing denominator
redundancy payment
reefer cargo list
reset bias circuit
resource data file
saxter aithe
schne
Sloanea leptocarpa
stick something on
stoicer
straight line body
table-rapping
taking-up equipment
Terrasson-la-Villedieu
the secession
think light of
tog sb up
torsion prime
vaccum xanthate mixer
velvetier
xvth
your telex
youssuf