21.   Hundreds of people were missing Friday after a passenger ferry sank off the coast of Nigeria, news reports said.

22.   I grabbed my two children, but when the ferry sank we were sucked under the water with it.

23.   However, in another report, Antara quoted a survivor as saying that the ferry sank after being hit by huge waves.

24.   In a telephone interview from Santa Fe, Bemis said he organized the filmed dive to find further clues to why the ferry sank.

25.   Immediately after the ferry disaster, Lindstrom demanded that the Estonia be salvaged in order to clarify why the ferry sank.

26.   In its report, the commission said the site where the ferry sank should be declared a restricted area and regarded as a graveyard.

27.   Kompas newspaper quoted Lt. Col. Edi Permadi, chief of the local police as saying the ferry sank in rough seas after developing engine trouble.

28.   Last year, a Zambian parliament member was among eight people who died when a ferry sank in the same district.

29.   Men were more able to survive when the Estonia ferry sank because they were stronger, investigators said Monday.

30.   More than fifty people were feared drowned after a ferry sank in the Nile River as it carried passengers returning from a funeral in the southern province of Minya.