BoatBanter.com - Tourist tall ship capsizes

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turkey-coast-leaving-two-dead

Kurt-C / Kurt-Ceyhan

A tourist boat capsized Saturday two miles off the Turkish shore near the
popular Antalya resort, with at least one person missing and 33 injured.

Eighty-two people, including foreign tourists, were rescued, according
to the Hurriyet daily. The injured were taken to hospitals with non-life
threatening injuries. The press officer at the Russian Embassy in Turkey
told RIA Novosti that a female Russian tourist was among those rescued.
Antalya Governor Munir Karaloglu was cited by the Daily Sabah as saying
that coast guards and maritime police officers had been sent to assist in
the ongoing rescue operation. According to the outlet, the incident
happened due to high winds and heavy rainfall.

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http://aktualne.atlas.sk/zahranicie/...avba-skoncila-
tragediou-pri-prevrateni-lode-zahynuli-dvaja-ludia.html

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In connection with the tragic incident local authorities have detained
four people, the master, the shipowner and four crew members.

Kurt-Ceyhan ship with 86 people on board set sail from the port in the
historical center of Antalya. The sudden overturning of the vessel was
due to violent storms off the coast about 26 kilometers away Konyaalti
district.

At the resort during a storm capsized cruise ship. Rescued dozens of
people
To rescue the tourists participated in a Turkish coastguard and maritime
police, who now pulled out of the sea, two dead bodies. They were
resident in the wreck of a sunken vessel on the seabed at a depth of 45
meters. According to authorities is a citizen of Turkey and Lebanon.

The remaining 84 people were saved. Since they did not record any missing
person investigation work completed today. Whether the rescued tourists
and visitors from Europe, is not known.

Among the 38 people who were hospitalized after Saturday's crash remain
under observation in the hospital two people.

According to the agency DPA is today's vessel overturning another bad
news for the Turkish tourism industry. The numbers of foreign visitors in
the Turkish resort declined significantly after a series of terrorist
attacks in the country and the July attempted military coup