11.   Water flooded the car deck, tossing around vehicles.

12.   With car decks the size of football fields and doors at both ends, cars can roll on and off quickly.

13.   In particular, they agreed that all ferries must be equipped with watertight bulkheads on the car decks.

14.   It is believed to have capsized after water flooded the car deck.

15.   According to the daily, thousands of tons of water gushed onto the car deck in just minutes.

16.   The specialists said that a ferry should be able to stay afloat in heavy seas, with up to fifty centimetres of water on the car deck.

17.   The steady whirring of the engines lulled passengers to sleep, even those in cabins tucked below the waterline, under the car deck.

18.   The ship sank after the outer bow visor came off in rough seas and water gushed through the access ramp door into the car deck.

19.   The disaster, one of the worst ever in European waters, was caused by huge amounts of water suddenly gushing onto the car deck.

20.   The IMO safety committee, scheduled to meet in December, is expected to advise that watertight partitions be installed on car decks, The Financial Times newspaper said.