CBS Evening News - 1994-09-28
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[0:02] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:07] With Dan Rather in New York and Connie
[0:10] Chung in Los Angeles.
[0:12] >> Good evening. Most of the victims may
[0:14] never be found from one of the worst
[0:16] ferry boat disasters ever. It happened
[0:18] last night in the Baltic Sea off the
[0:20] coast of Finland. Tonight, 42 bodies
[0:23] have been recovered, but nearly 800
[0:25] other people are missing and presumed
[0:27] drowned. 141 survivors were rescued.
[0:30] Correspondent Mark Phillips is on the
[0:32] scene.
[0:34] >> At dawn today with the seas still
[0:36] raging, helicopters and ships from
[0:38] around the Baltic moved over the site of
[0:39] the sinking of the ferry Estonia. They
[0:42] found the floatsam from one of the worst
[0:44] peacetime maritime disasters in history.
[0:47] The ship had been en route from Tallinn,
[0:49] the capital of Estonia, to Stockholm.
[0:51] With a gale blowing and in mountainous
[0:53] seas between Finland and Sweden, the
[0:55] ship began to list one side. One crewman
[0:58] who survived said he saw water flooding
[1:00] in.
[1:01] >> And you saw water coming in?
[1:03] >> There's a
[1:04] Where is a mission a room is a
[1:07] half meter.
[1:08] >> There was water up to your knees?
[1:09] >> water
[1:11] >> Not many got to the boats. They didn't
[1:13] have much time. The Estonia was of the
[1:16] modern roll-on-roll-off type ferry. In a
[1:18] safety inspection just yesterday,
[1:20] maritime officials were unhappy with the
[1:22] water seals on her doors. Although today
[1:24] they said they didn't think that alone
[1:26] caused the sinking. Yet water leaking
[1:28] through those doors last night may have
[1:30] contributed to the disaster. The ship
[1:33] began to list. The cargo of vehicles may
[1:35] have shifted forcing