On Tuesday, an independent inquiry commission blasted the city's marine department for failing to detect flaws in the doomed boat's structure that contributed to it sinking within just two minutes.
Opened in March, this former marine police station turned petite hotel is a rare example of Hong Kong preserving and repurposing a historic structure rather than razing it to build as big and as modern as possible.
Coral reefs are home to 25 percent of the world's marine fish species, and cover 1 percent of the Earth's surface, making them the largest single living structure on Earth.