It was the golden season.Īll experts agreed that the ferry was overcrowded with passengers and their vehicles they brought from Saudi Arabia still they can not determine the number of passengers as it should, do not forget Hussein Salem is very powerful man, he is more powerful than you think. Most people say that the passengers were more then 1000, some said they were 1400. Till now we do not know for sure how many passengers were on the Salem Express, except that they were not by any means 690 passengers like the official records with a death toll was 480 passengers. The Egyptian X-File: How many passengers were on board of the Salem Express?
The vessel sank in incredible speed.Īccording to the official story the ferry drowned because of human error, the captain’s. I must mention that according to what I read the Safga port tried to save the ferry as quick as possible still it seems that it was difficult ,there was a sea storm in the middle of the winter and. In less than 10 minutes, it sank fully to the seabed in 30 meters of water. The lifeboats were never used, there are in their places till this moment. Yes they were just trapped like in SS Poseidon. There was that an electric outage happened and the doors on the ferry were electric, most of the passengers were locked in, they were trapped. This lifting mechanism was to become a major contributing factor in its catastrophic disaster Already it turned out that it has a lift mechanism that contributed to this disaster this kind of technical but I think we should mention it here Salem Express’ bow encompassed a lifting mechanism designed to turn the entire forward bow upwards, whilst ramps “Movable stairs” were then lowered allowing vehicles and passengers alike to embark through its nose, directly forward of the raised bridge section on the upper deck. Its forward motion only served to increase the upward pressure on the door until it was fully open and forced thousands of gallons of water directly into its hull. Striking the reef on the starboard side of its bow, slightly below the bow door, it not only ripped a hole in her side, but the entire bow door was forced upward. The Salem Express then struck the southeast part of a reef chain known as Hyndman Reef “exact location is in the map below”.
On the 15 th of December 1991 at night the ferry was southeast of Safga port and just few hours from entering it where there was a sea storm in the area. It was said that it was overloaded with passengers and vehicles. The last voyage of the ferry was between Safga and Jeddah, the ferry was returning from Jeddah carrying Egyptians, most of them from the pilgrims. At 100m long, with an 18m beam and 5m draft she was a sizeable vessel. Through years the vessels name was changed several times, to the Nuits Saint George, Lord Sinai, and Al Tahara and in 1988 to the Salem Express. It was built in the French shipyards of La Seyne in 1964 the ship was launched under the name Fred Scamaroni in 1966 and was a roll-on, roll-off ferry for vehicles and passengers. There are some people that are saying that the number of the passengers were more than that, they were about 1600, of course there is no confirmation till now especially after all those year and the fact the Salam 98 was officially infamously crowned as the mother of all disasters.
On its board there were officially 690 passengers mainly from Egypt from the pilgrims “It was the pilgrimage season”. Salem express drowned in December 1991 while it was in its way home to Egypt from Saudi Arabia. It was the first Egyptian ferry that sunk in the red sea and the first accident of its type in the history of Egypt it touched the hearts and minds of many Egyptian. Salem Express ferry was owned by Hussein Salem, famous tycoon, former intelligence officer and close friend to President Mubarak himself, after all Mubarak is staying in his hotel Jolie Ville at Sharm El-Sheikh most of the year. Poseidon is chronologically the second oldest of the Olympians Gods after Hades, although it is stated that being "freed" from Kronos's stomach rebirthed the Gods swallowed by him, making Poseidon following his rebirth even younger than Zeus.Before Titanic ,there was the SS Poseidon and Before Al Salam 98, there was Salem Express !! Yes Al Salam 98 was not the first ferry that sunk with its passengers on its board with no hope to survival, still people sometimes got short memory !!.Poseidon, known by the humans as Julian Solo and the patriarch successor of the Solo Family - a human family under the protection of Olympian God Poseidon and thus defend the seas in his name, currently Poseidon has awoken and is returning to his fullest power since the first Holy War.
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