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When Watching Football Killed 80: The Express Samina Mystery
When Watching Football Killed 80: The Express Samina Mystery
Calm seas, charted rocks, and a football match on a crew TV - yet eighty people died in forty minutes. The Express Samina was a 34-year-old ferry on a routine Piraeus-Parikia crossing when a chain of small failures turned into catastrophe; who was responsible for leaving nine of eleven watertight doors open and the bridge unattended?
In this episode, you will hear the sequence of events on the night of 26 September 2000, how an unmanned bridge, a stuck stabilizer fin and an eighteen-knot collision combined with open watertight doors…
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