James BryceBy James Bryce
PASSENGERS on board a popular Costa de la Luz ferry which sank, claim a crew member had fallen asleep.
The El Vaporcito ferry – which operates between El Puerto de Santa Maria and Cadiz – went down on Tuesday after hitting the Reina Victoria quay.
All 80 passengers and three crew members were safely evacuated, but 15 people have now placed a denuncia, claiming that they were forced to alert the crew to the imminent collision.
The boat, officially named El Adriano III, took just seven minutes to sink due to a hole near the bow.
A Facebook group with over 2,000 members has been set up to campaign for the re-floating of the boat, built in 1982, which is the third to operate the route since the service began in 1929.
There main people on board is not a captain, there is a patrón, is not the same meaning.
On board there was eighty people, not 49.
The boat was built in 1982. That is 29 years old.
He was just having a siesta…
………. right Fred if the incident occurred between 15:00 and 18:00 hrs >> no need to investigate further.
3 hours? Surely 5-6?