and looks like dead children too, so you know that will make the
CHILD-KILLING, MASS-MURDERING COLD-HEARTED ***** christian sky pixie
awfully happy !

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/30/indonesia.ship.ap/index.html

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A crowded Indonesian ferry broke apart and sank
in the Java Sea during a violent storm that sent towering waves over its
deck, and the vast majority of the 600 passengers were still missing a day
later, officials said Saturday.

Raging seas have hampered rescue efforts and about 14 hours after the
disaster, just 66 survivors had been found, many drifting in lifeboats,
officials said. No bodies had been found, leaving more than 500 passengers
unaccounted for.

"We all just prayed as the waves got higher," said Cholid, a passenger who
survived by clinging to some wooden planks but who lost his 18-year-old
daughter.

People fought over lifejackets as the boat capsized, sending cars crashing
into one another in the cargo hold, he said.

"I was going upstairs to try to help my daughter, but the ship suddenly
broke up and I was thrown out. I lost her," said Cholid, who like many
Indonesians uses one name.

Waves of up to 16 feet crashed over the deck of the ship around midnight
Friday during the final leg of a 48-hour journey from the island of Borneo
to the main island of Java, said Slamet Bustam, an official at Semarang
port, the ferry's destination, where hundreds of distraught relatives and
friends waited for news about their loved ones.

"We're afraid many have died," Bustam said.

Two naval ships were searching the area, but poor visibility was hindering
their search.

Authorities struggled to come up with an accurate number of those on
board. Earlier, Bustam said there 850 passengers, but later lowered the
number to 600. Local media said that between 500 and 800 were on board.

Transport Minister Hatta Radjasa put the number of passengers at 542,
citing the passenger manifest. Ships in Indonesia, however, often carry
far more passengers than recorded, making it hard for authorities to say
with accuracy how many people were on board.

In a final radio contact, the captain informed port authorities that the
ship was severely damaged and capsizing, said local navy commander Col.
Yan Simamora.

Worried family members gathered at the main office of ferry operator PT
Prima Fista, weeping and demanding details about the fate of their loved
ones.

"I am waiting for my mother, auntie, sister and nephew who were on their
way to celebrate New Year's Eve at my house," said Yulis, 25.

The ferry ran into trouble 24 miles off Mandalika island, some 190 miles
northeast of the capital, Jakarta, while en route to Semarang on Central
Java from the port of Kumai on Borneo island.

Seasonal storms have wreaked havoc across Indonesia in recent days,
unleashing flash floods and landslides that have killed more than 145
people and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes on Sumatra.

Earlier Friday, a different vessel carrying around 100 people capsized in
bad weather off the coast of northwestern Sumatra, killing three and
leaving 26 missing, Radjasa said.

Ferries are a main source of transportation in Indonesia, a vast
archipelago of more than 17,000 islands with a population of 220 million.