The ship was en route from Ziguinchor to Dakar when it ran into a violent storm farther out to sea than it was licensed to sail. The estimated 2000 passengers aboard would have amounted to at least three times the ship's design capacity. The large numbers sleeping on-deck added further instability. Only 64 passengers survived. (26 September 2002)
There are 3386 births, 3952 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5739 people in 6452 places until today.
Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.
15 Aspen Drive, North Caldwell, New Jersey, United States.
Related events:
Saturday 10th of December 1994 (-) — 50-year-old advertising executive Thomas Mosser is killed when opening Bomb #15 sent by Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore Kaczynski . Kaczynski explained in a letter sent to the New York Times that Mosser was targeted because he handled PR for the Exxon Valdez incident. This was incorrect.