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Article: 'That boat was a death trap. I warned the captain and told revellers to stay down below' EXCLUSIVE BAHRAIN DHOW DISASTER.(News)
- Article from:
- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2006
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Byline: By BEN SMALLEY in Dubai and SUSIE BONIFACE
A DIVING instructor told yesterday how he frantically warned partygoers that their boat was a death trap.
Minutes before it capsized, South African Vincent Cubitt had begged the 150 passengers on the Al Dana to stay on the bottom deck as the top-heavy boat rocked furiously from side to side. Twenty people took his advice and quit the ship.
But within an hour a combination of poor design and free-flowing ...