VARIOUS: RESCUERS SAVE MORE THAN 1,100 PASSENGERS AND CREW AS LUXURY PASSENGER LINER CATCHES FIRE OFF MALAYSIAN COAST

Record ID: 990031

  • Title: VARIOUS: RESCUERS SAVE MORE THAN 1,100 PASSENGERS AND CREW AS LUXURY PASSENGER LINER CATCHES FIRE OFF MALAYSIAN COAST
  • Date: 21st May 1999
  • Summary: AT SEA, MALAYSIAN COAST (MAY 21, 1999) (AMATEUR VIDEO - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA) 1. VARIOUS AMATEUR VIDEO SHIP SINKING (2 SHOTS) 0.26 2. VARIOUS AMATEUR VIDEO PASSENGERS IN LIFEBOATS (4 SHOTS) 1.03 PENANG, MALAYSIA (MAY 21, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 3. GV/LV RUSSIAN CARGO SHIP WHICH PICKED UP SURVIVORS (2 SHOTS) 1.16 4. SLV'S AMBULANCE 1.23 5. LV'S SURVIVORS ON DECK OF SHIP/AMBULANCE (2 SHOTS) 1.31 6. SLV SURVIVOR ON STRETCHER/AMBULANCE 1.38 7. VARIOUS SURVIVORS GETTING OFF (3 SHOTS) 1.59 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) UNIDENTIFIED SCOTSMAN SAYING "What can you say? Everything on the boat, down. That's all." / (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) UNIDENTIFIED WIFE OF SCOTSMAN SAYING "The crew were very very good and so was this boat" 2.23 9. VARIOUS MORE SURVIVORS, WOMAN WITH LIFEJACKET/SURVIVORS OFF BOAT (2 SHOTS) 2.41 PENANG, MALAYSIA (MAY 21, 1999) (BERNAMA TV - ACCESS ALL) 10. LV/SLV MORE SURVIVORS COMING OFF CARGO SHIP WITH LIFEJACKETS (2 SHOTS) 2.52 11. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) UNIDENTIDENTIFIED ENGLISH MAN SAYING "The boat caught fire in the engine room. They couldn't put it out. Then the fire got bigger, then they said abandon ship. INTERVIEWER ASKING MAN HOW HE LEFT - MAN SAYING "In lifeboats, Its was bit bit choppy , but o.k." 3.17 12. SV WOMAN WITH LIFEJACKETS 3.25 13. ZOOM OUT/PAN SUN CRUISE BUS AND SURVIVORS WITH LIFE JACKETS GETTING ON BOARD BUS 3.34 14. VARIOUS ANOTHER RESCUE VESSEL COMING INTO PORT (2 SHOTS) 3.50 15. SLV SURVIVORS IN LOUNGE 3.58 16. SV SOUNDBITE (English) UNIDENTIFIED ENGLISH SURVIVOR SAYING "About half past two it started, they notified us that there was a fire in the engine room, and just to keep calm and then they said they had got it out at four, and then they had tea upstairs and moved us upstairs, then about six o'clock they abandoned ship and we all got in the boats and we were picked up by the container, but the crew was very good, excellent." 4.30 AT SEA, MALAYSIA (MAY 21, 1999) (CHANNEL NINE - STRICTLY NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA) 17. VARIOUS NIGHT SHOTS AMATEUR VIDEO OF FIRE ON BOARD SHIP/ PASSENGERS IN LIFEJACKETS/ MORE OF FIRE (3 SHOTS) 5.16 PENANG, MALAYSIA (MAY 21, 1999) (TV3 - NO ACCESS MALAYSIA) 18. LV/CU EXTERIOR OF PENANG HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 5.22 19. VARIOUS OF HOSPITAL INTERIOR 5.26 20. MV/SV WOMAN SITTING ON HOSPITAL BED (2 SHOTS) 5.32 21. SV POLICE OFFICER 5.37 22. SV WOMAN LYING ON BED 5.40 23. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) PASSENGER OF SUN VISTA SAYING: "I was on deck eight. We were going to watch some of the shows that they were going to put on in ten minutes. It went off about 2 o'clock, the lights went off on deck eight at about 2 o'clock and that was it. They didn't really tell us what was going on." 5.58 24. MV WOMEN AT BED 6.11 SINGAPORE (MAY 21, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 25. VARIOUS PASSENGERS ARRIVING AT SINGAPORE'S CHANGI AIRPORT (2 SHOTS) 6.22 26. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) AUSTRALIAN PASSENGER, DAN LAYER SPEAKING IN ENGLISH, CRITICISING RESCUE OPERATION, SAYING THAT NO-ONE TOOK CHARGE OF THE SITUATION 6.37 27. VARIOUS PASSENGERS COMING THROUGH TERMINAL, PASSENGER IN LIFEJACKET/ PASSENGER CRITIZING SAFETY PROCEDURES (2 SHOTS) 7.05 28. VARIOUS SCENES AT AIRPORT/ MORE PASSENGERS COMING THROUGH (7 SHOTS) 7.41 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: AT SEA/PENANG, MALAYSIA.
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  • Country: Singapore AT SEA Malaysia
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