Way Back When: Today In History

Posted: Monday, February 17, 2014 12:00 am | Updated: 5:43 am, Mon Feb 17, 2014.

Way Back When: Today In History By GENE CURTIS TulsaWorld.com |

1993 - Boat sinks, killing 900

At least 900 people drowned after the heavily overloaded ferry Neptune overturned and sank in stormy weather 60 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. "The sea was full of people," one survivor said. "I kept bumping into drowned people." Survivors said there were no life jackets or life boats on the Neptune that should have carried a maximum of 650 persons but was believed to have carried 1,500 plus farm animals and cargo on its 150-mile trip from Jeremie to Port-au-Prince.

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