Hong Kong ferry crash captains charged with manslaughter
<p></p><div><br></div><div><div class="cnn_stryathrtmp" style="padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 10px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><div class="cnnByline" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By <strong>Peter Shadbolt</strong> for CNN</span></div><div class="cnn_strytmstmp" style="padding-top: 1px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 11, 2013 -- Updated 1024 GMT (1824 HKT)</span></div></div><div class="cnn_strycntntlft" style="margin-right: 4px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; display: inline; width: 640px; clear: both; "><div class="cnnExplainer cnn_html_slideshow" style="margin-bottom: 20px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; "><div class="cnnstrylccimg640" style="margin-right: 27px; margin-bottom: 14px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px; "><div class="cnn_stryichgfull" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; "><div class="cnn_stryichgflg" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px; height: 400px; overflow: hidden; "><div class="cnnArticleGalleryPhotoContainer" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/121004121604-01-hk-ferry-1004-horizontal-gallery.jpg" alt="Mourners accompanied by Taoist priests take boats on Thursday, October 4, to go to the scene of the boat collision that killed 38 people off Lamma Island, near Hong Kong, on October 1. 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border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; clear: both; "></div></div></div><font color="#444444"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a name="em0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "></a><span style="text-align: left; "></span></span></font><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt" style="padding-left: 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: left; float: left; position: relative; text-align: left; "><div class="cnn_strylctcntr" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 166px; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</strong></div><ul class="cnn_bulletbin cnnStryHghLght" style="margin-top: 9px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 7px; margin-left: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hong Kong police charge two ferry captains with manslaughter</span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 7px; margin-left: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Follows fatal ferry collision last year that left 39 people dead</span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 7px; margin-left: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Involved passenger ferry and vessel carrying revelers to National Day fireworks</span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 7px; margin-left: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Narrow sea lanes leading into Hong Kong's main harbor are some of the busiest in Asia</span></li></ul></div></div><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Hong Kong (CNN)</strong> -- Hong Kong police on Thursday charged two ferry captains with manslaughter following a fatal ferry collision last year that left 39 people dead -- the city's worst maritime disaster in decades.</span></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The two men, who were not named but whose ages were given as 54 and 56, were arrested last year along with five other crew members in connection with the collision off Lamma Island near Hong Kong on the night of October 1, 2012.</span></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The collision involved a passenger ferry traveling from Hong Kong Island to Lamma Island and a vessel owned by the Hong Kong Electric Company, which was carrying company employees and their families to watch a scheduled fireworks display.</span></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Survivors described how the collision upended one of the vessels, flinging passengers into the water. Rescuers picked up 123 survivors but at least 92 passengers were injured in the incident.</span></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Passengers on board the ferries said how they had only moments to escape.</span></p><font color="#444444"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a name="em1" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "></a><span style="text-align: left; "></span></span></font><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand16" style="padding-right: 27px; padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: left; float: left; position: relative; text-align: left; "><div id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand16" class="clickToPlay" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; width: 136px; height: 42px; left: 45px; top: 27px; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); zoom: 1; cursor: pointer; "></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/121002010235-ferry-rescue-story-body.jpg" alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" width="214" style="font-style: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; "></span></div><cite class="expCaption" style="position: absolute; left: 10px; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; width: 214px; opacity: 0.85; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; float: left; position: relative; top: 2px; left: 4px; overflow: hidden; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hong Kong to investigate ferry crash</span></span></cite></div><font color="#444444"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a name="em2" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "></a><span style="text-align: left; "></span></span></font><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand26" style="padding-right: 27px; padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: left; float: left; position: relative; text-align: left; "><div id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand26" class="clickToPlay" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; width: 136px; height: 42px; left: 45px; top: 27px; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); zoom: 1; cursor: pointer; "></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/121003043503-hong-kong-ferry-offering-story-body.jpg" alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" width="214" style="font-style: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; "></span></div><cite class="expCaption" style="position: absolute; left: 10px; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; width: 214px; opacity: 0.85; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; float: left; position: relative; top: 2px; left: 4px; overflow: hidden; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ferry crash concerns commuters, tourists</span></span></cite></div><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"First it was up to here and then here. The water rose so quickly," one woman, who declined to be named, told CNN affiliate i-Cable at the time. "We thought we were going to die for sure."</span></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to the Hong Kong Fire Services Department, which led the rescue, the vessel began to sink quickly after the impact. It said low visibility and many obstacles on board made work difficult for rescuers.</span></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The narrow sea lanes leading into Hong Kong's main deepwater harbor are some of the busiest in Asia, with giant commercial freighters, ocean liners, passenger ferries and private boats of all sizes sharing the waters.</span></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hong Kong is home to more than 200 outlying Islands, including Lamma. Hong Kong Island is on the south side of Victoria harbor, with Kowloon forming its northern shore. North of Kowloon lie the New Territories, which stretch all the way to mainland China.</span></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The collision was Hong Kong's most lethal maritime accident since 1971, when 88 people died after the ferry Fat Shan capsized between Hong Kong and Macau during a typhoon.</span></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The five crew members also arrested over the incident are due to answer bail in mid-April.</span></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><a href="http://cnn.com/2012/10/03/world/asia/hong-kong-ferry-lamma-react" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#444444">READ MORE: World's 'most delightful commute' hit by ferry disaster</font></a></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><a href="http://cnn.com/2012/10/02/world/asia/hong-kong-ferry-survivors" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#444444">READ MORE: Survivors recount chaos, horror of ferry collision</font></a></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><a href="http://cnn.com/2012/10/02/world/asia/hong-kong-ferry-crash" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#444444">READ MORE: Rescuers search for missing after deadly Hong Kong ferry cr</font></a><a href="http://cnn.com/2012/10/02/world/asia/hong-kong-ferry-crash" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; ">ash</a></p><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; "><br></div></div></div>
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