"claus" wrote in message
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ATHENS, April 8 - The captain of a cruise ship that slammed into a
volcanic reef before sinking off the Aegean island of Santorini blamed
strong sea currents for the accident, Greece's state-run television said
Sunday.

The 1,156 passengers, most of them Americans, and the 391 crew members
were forced to evacuate the listing liner, which sank 15 hours after the
accident on Thursday. A pair of French tourists have been missing since
then.

"I felt the ship, which had been on a normal course, slip to the right
because of the sea currents," state-run NET television quoted the captain
as saying in the deposition during a long session before a public
prosecutor. "I gave the order for a full turn left. But there was not
enough time for the ship to respond." The captain's name has not been
released, and the television station did not explain how it obtained the
deposition comments.


That must have been one hell of a current. Came from nowhere, strong enough
to push the ship onto the reef despite the captain's heroic efforts to fight
it, then vanished. Sure hope I never run into it.