The2009 Kiribati ferry accident was the sinking, on 13 July 2009, of an inter-islandferry in the south Pacific nation ofKiribati.[1] The accident is believed to have killed 33 of the ship's 55 passengers and crew.[1]
The ferry was a 56-foot-long (17 m) double-hulled woodcatamaran en route betweenTarawa and the outlying island ofMaiana.[1] It capsized when the captain attempted to turn around to rescue a crew member who had been swept overboard in high seas. TheRoyal New Zealand Air Force sent aC130 aircraft to aid inair-sea rescue and recovery operations; it aided in recovering twenty survivors, and seven bodies, before calling off the search. A further eighteen bodies were not recovered.
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