A Washington Post investigation retraced the route of the Adriana and how Greek coast guard decisions contributed to a preventable tragedy. Here's what you need to know.
reports that the Adriana was drifting for 6½ hours or more before it capsized, the Post analysis concluded that the boat was traveling under its own propulsion, albeit slowly, for periods of time.
Survivor Haseeb Ur Rehman, 20, a motorcycle mechanic from Kashmir, said the engine stopped working for about five hours on June 11 and again for a period on the night of June 12. “We knew we were in trouble,” he said, recalling how other passengers recited Koranic verses and cried. An image taken on a Greek coast guard helicopter on June 13 shows scores of people on the decks of the Adriana.
An inherently unstable boat might be okay “if there were no waves, there was nothing going on,” she said.Claim 3: ‘How could we be towing it?’The coast guard says crowd movement on board, probably caused by panic, caused a sudden shift in weight, leading the boat to roll to one side, then the other, before it overturned.
The patrol boat captain, Miltiadis Zouridakis, handed over a video recording to investigators. But no visual evidence has been made public of the moment the vessel capsized. Three survivors of the Adriana interviewed by The Post mentioned ropes being attached to the trawler just before it capsized. Two of those people cited towing.The trawler been instructed to follow the coast guard patrol toward Italian waters, but it struggled to keep up and eventually the engine failed, said Abu Hussein, the 30-year-old Syrian.
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