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Subscribe to RSSRescuers were scouring the ocean off eastern Indonesia on Sunday after 14 people went missing in high waves, police said according to a local newspaper.
The boat was carrying 27 people to the island of Buru when it capsized after being hit by a 3-meter-high (10-foot-high) wave, local police official Zet Riry told The Jakarta Post. Thirteen had already been rescued, he said, adding that the captain of the boat was among those missing.
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Sea accidents are common in the Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago nation with more than 17,000 islands, largely because of bad safety standards and frequent overcrowding of boats, according to the newspaper.
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The boat was carrying 27 people. Probably built for 6-8. Could not have been a sea worthy craft capable of transporting 27 if it was swamped by a 10ft wave.
Kinda says it all doesn't it.
Wonder if they ever heard of Live & Learn? Possibly not.
Anyways, its still a sad loss of life.
Rouge news,
They must have been in a Amozon wooden dugout canoe stacked 3 high on each others shoulders?? I thought it was a 100 foot wave at first, the boat if you want to call it that had to be the issue........
An interesting conflict of values: either the people do not care about safety or the government lacks the power to enforce some level of safety.
Lack of concern for their own safety is brought on by these people being taught from an early age that the more you pay someone to deliver a service, the safer you are, AND their Muslim imams teaching them that Allah will protect them if they keep giving all their money to the mosque.
This is so sad to hear but that is why I never like going on a boat anywhere because there is nothing bigger than the ocean and there nothing smaller than a boat in that huge ocean.
Shark bait
I've sailed a 40' footer in 20 ft. waves, not comfortable, but not catastrophic. The boat must have been a piece of S**t
They were all Muslims so Allah saved them.
Sad for the family and friends of those lost, I doubt it'll happen but I hope one day soon they will practice safer transports especially since there are already so many accidents.