Superferry 9
IMO: 8517396
Build: 1986 by Usuki Shipyard – Usuki in Japan, nr 1328
What do you get when you combine the floating apartment block structure of a cruise ship with the cargo capabilities of a general cargo vessel?
The ugly answer is Superferry 9.
Via blog.philippinen-nachrichten.info
Now, throw in some mechanical and possible stability problems, and what happens?
The uglier answer occurred on September 6th of 2009:
From Reuters via habagatcentral.com
From AP via newshopper.sulekha.com
Oops.
Read more about the incident here.
