DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A handful of survivors gathered in Senegal on Wednesday to pay homage to the victims of the Joola, a Senegalese ferry that sank off the coast of Gambia in 2002, killing 1,863 people.
That’s 361 more than were killed when the Titanic went down nine decades earlier, claiming 1,502 lives. The government-owned ferry was carrying several times the maximum recommended number of passengers, and survivors say it was already listing from the excess weight when it ran into a storm.