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They Watched Through Glass: The Day Le Joola Became a Mass Grave
They Watched Through Glass: The Day Le Joola Became a Mass Grave
Fear of being so close and utterly powerless drives this episode: a retired navy diver looked through a sealed porthole at living passengers pressing their hands and gesturing - and then swam away because opening the door would have sunk the hull. The MV Le Joola capsized on September 26, 2002 with at least 1,863 dead; how did documented failures and routine choices turn a routine ferry crossing into nearly two thousand deaths?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events, the human stories and the documented failures that…
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