10 Nov 2009

Inquiry told ferry began to flood an hour before it sank

From Checkpoint, 5:40 pm on 10 November 2009

The first survivor to give evidence at the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the sinking of Tonga's doomed passenger ferry, has spoken of seeing water flooding the ship an hour before it went down, while its captain slept.

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