(31 Dec 2006)
Rembang port
1. Rescue boat arriving
2. Rescue teams with survivor
3. Woman survivor being carried into truck
4. Truck leaving
5. Various survivors in truck
Rembang hospital
6. Relatives of victims awaiting news
7. Various Survivors arriving at hospital
8. Hospital emergency rooms
9. Various survivor in emergency room
9. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesian) Bekti Riwayati, survivor
"The wave was so high and the ship's crew told us not to panic. But we were panicked and the ship went down. It took two hours to sink."
10. Indonesian army personnel distributing food and blankets
11. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesian) Waluyo (only name given), rescue worker
"If there is no help until tomorrow for the other passengers, I do not think they are strong enough to survive."
12. Wide paramedic with survivor
13. Wide emergency rooms
STORYLINE:
Navy ships searched into the night on Saturday for survivors from a crowded passenger ferry that sank in stormy weather off Indonesia's Java island, leaving more than 500 people missing, officials said.
Nearly 24 hours after the Senopati Nusantara went down, just 59 survivors had been pulled from the sea, raising fears that the sinking will prove one of Indonesia's worst maritime disasters in recent history.
No bodies have so far been recovered.
One survivor being treated at Rembang hospital told AP Television News that a huge wave caused panic on the ferry.
Bekti Riwayati told AP Television; "The wave was so high and the ship's crew told us not to panic. But we were panicked and the ship went down. It took two hours to sink".
Wulayo, a member of the rescue team, held little hope of finding more people alive.
"If there is no help until tomorrow for the other passengers, I do not think they are strong enough to survive", he said.
The Senopati Nusantara had been on the final leg of a 48-hour journey to Java from the island of Borneo when waves of up to five metres (16 feet ) high crashed over its deck, said an official at Semarang port, the ferry's destination.
Water temperatures in tropical Indonesia are between 20 degrees Centigrade to 32 degrees Centigrade (72 Fahrenheit to 84 Fahrenheit), and people lost at sea have been known to survive for days.
Four naval ships, several other vessels and at least two aircraft were scouring the area Saturday, but poor visibility and storm seas
hindered their search.
Officials said that 638 passengers and crew had been aboard the vessel, and that 59 had been rescued.
The ferry ran into trouble 40 kilometres (24 miles) off Mandalika island, about 30 kilometres (190 miles) northeast of the capital,
Jakarta, while en route to Semarang in Central Java from Kumai on Indonesia's part of Borneo island.
In a final radio contact, the captain had told port authorities that the ship was severely damaged and capsizing, a local navy commander said.
Keyword- ferry disaster
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