The Boat
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| Originally published | May 13, 2008 |
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| Authors | Nam Le |
| Publishers | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Page count | 228 |
| Genres | Short Story |
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| ID | 2914024 |
About The Boat
The Boat is a collection of short stories by the Vietnamese-Australian writer Nam Le, published in 2008. It contains seven short stories taking place all over the world, from Colombia and the United States to Vietnam, Tehran, Australia and Hiroshima.
Two migrants die crossing Channel in small boat
... The Boat was spotted getting into difficulty, with several people in the water, less than a mile from the French coast early on Wednesday afternoon...
'Remarkable' Titanic menu sells for £84,000 at Wiltshire auction
... More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on 14 April 1912, causing The Boat to sink...
Channel deaths: Government orders inquiry into mass drowning
... It said that might have contributed to the wrong assumption that people on board The Boat had been rescued by the Border Force...
Levi Davis: Missing rugby player's family say they live in hope
... A search was started but was later called off when no-one from The Boat was found to be missing...
Brixton village: How the 'Oxford Street of South London' evolved
... According to the National Archives, there were 1,027 people on board The Boat, and more than 800 of them gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean...
Nyad: Netflix film follows swimmer who braved sharks and jellyfish
... Sharks, for example, are deterred thanks to a piercing audio signal being sent from The Boat...
River Danube: Ukrainian captain jailed after fatal river tour boat crash
... Seven of the 35 people on board were rescued and several bodies quickly recovered, but others were swept away in the swollen river or trapped inside The Boat...
World War Two: The Australian commando raid in Singapore
... Park The Boat off Singapore, then paddle into Keppel Harbour in collapsible canoes under cover of darkness...
River Danube: Ukrainian captain jailed after fatal river tour boat crash
By Nick ThorpeBBC News, Hungary
The captain of a Cruise Ship which collided with a small tour boat on The River Danube in Budapest, killing 28 people, has been jailed for five years.
During a rainstorm in May 2019, The Mermaid , carrying South Korean tourists, sank within seconds of The Crash .
The Ukrainian captain of the Vikyn Sigyn Cruise Ship , Yuri Chaplinsky, denied wrongdoing but was found guilty of gross negligence.
Chaplinsky is expected to appeal.
The disaster was the worst in 30 years on The Danube , Europe's second-longest river.
Hungarian prosecutors told a court on in March 2020 that Chaplinsky had failed to pay sufficient attention and had not properly focused on steering The Ship for several minutes during the downpour.
" He did not sense The Mermaid 's presence, did not radio or send out emergency sound signals, " Miklos Novaki told The Court .
The Viking Sigyn Cruise Ship struck The Mermaid tour boat just after 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on 29 May as both vessels passed under Budapest's Margaret Bridge .
Seven of the 35 people on board were rescued and several bodies quickly recovered, but others were Swept Away in the swollen river or trapped inside The Boat .
Police said The Boat sank within seconds of the collision.
" The current was so fast and people were floating away, " one survivor, identified only by her surname Jung, told South Korea 's Yonhap news agency.
Twenty Five of those killed were South Koreans. The Mermaid 's captain and its crew member also died.
Only seven Korean passengers survived The Accident , while one Korean is still unaccounted for.
Chaplinsky, who has been in custody since 2019, told The Court that he was " deeply sorry" about the fatal accident.
" I cannot escape the memories of this terrible tragedy for a minute, I cannot sleep, and I think this is what I have To Live with for the rest of My Life , " He Said .
The 68-year-old was acquitted by The Court on The Charge of failing to provide help.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
