Recovery teams spent weeks searching the submerged decks and cabins for those who failed to escape the sinking vessel.

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He says he managed to steer his stricken vessel close into shore, preventing it from sinking in deep water where hundreds might have drowned.

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Thirty-two Burmese nationals have been rescued from a sinking ship by the Sri Lankan navy after the wooden vessel began to sink en route to Australia.

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The ship had already started sinking when it made the distress call but capsized within minutes of the patrol vessel arriving.

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Most notably in Uncharted 3, a cruise ship capsizes and players are forced to navigate their way through the fast-sinking ship, killing enemies and sprinting and climbing through the bowels of the vessel at a frantic pace trying to escape as their surroundings constantly explode and warp around them.

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Campaigners for the families of five French trawlermen killed when their fishing vessel sank off Cornwall nine years ago have called for a parliamentary debate over the sinking.

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Hundreds of the vessel's 1, 196-man crew managed to survive the cruiser's rapid sinking.

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