Bali is reeling from another deadly boat tragedy

Bali is reeling from another deadly boat tragedy after a ferry flipped between Nusa Penida and the holiday island, with five Australians among the lucky survivors in a grim reminder of Indonesia’s troubled boating safety record.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
I was crammed with eighty passengers, five young ossies on
the top deck when it flipped.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
I just got flown from the boat but come down
and one of the life rafts kind of hit me
on the way.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Down, Tangled in a rope, dragged under.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Started to drop my things, get myself out of that
and swim up.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
On the surface.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
He found his mates, carnage and people trapped inside the.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Boat trying to break the windows with a fire extinguisher
and the guy was using it. He set it off, so
the kind of cabin below filled with a bit of
a smoke from that.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Very few had life jackets before swimming one hundred meters
to shore. The young ossies tried to help a local man.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
We've got him something to hold onto, but no, we
don't think he made it.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Actually still missing this evening, and two Chinese nationals didn't
make it in holiday hell. Elsewhere, a thirteen year old
Sydney girl was run over by a boat snorkeling in Thailand,
severe head injuries. The community is fundraising for medical costs.
Bali's snow report was closed today. Many won't be back.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, we won't be getting on one now.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Too dangerous Indonesia's third fatal faery disaster in three months.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Me personally, I don't think I'm going to get one
of those fairies again.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
James Carmody, seven News