11.   Three Russian naval ships steamed into Pearl Harbor on Sunday to begin a joint maritime disaster relief exercise with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.

12.   The sinking was the biggest Norwegian maritime disaster for at least a decade.

13.   The sinking was the third maritime disaster to hit the Philippines in barely five months.

14.   There are monuments to dead British, American and German sailors and marines, all honouring a maritime disaster -- and the reason the observatory exists.

15.   The cause of the sinking -- the biggest Norwegian maritime disaster in a decade -- has not yet been determined.

16.   The capsizing of the vessel was the worst maritime disaster to afflict a British merchant vessel since the Titanic sank at the start of the century.