In the early morning of April 15, 1912, almost two hours after the Titanic hit an iceberg, the largest and most luxurious ship in the world at that time, known as the "unsinkable ship" and "dream ship", and at the same time supposedly the safest cruise ship sank on its maiden voyage...

On December 20, 1987, the ferry "Dunabaz" collided with an oil tanker in Philippine waters and caught fire, and soon sank into the sea! The ferry was severely overloaded with people, resulting in more than 4,000 deaths, the largest peacetime shipwreck in the history of international maritime transport...

In the night on September 26, 2002, the badly overloaded "Chora" was returning to the capital, Dakar, from the southern Senegalese city of Ziguinchor, when it encountered a storm and capsized in the waters off the Gambia. According to official figures, a total of 1,863 people died in the shipwreck, and only 64 survived...

On February 02, 2006, the passenger ship Salam 98, carrying more than 1,400 people, sank in the Red Sea, more than 1,000 people lost life. There were 1,310 passengers on board, about 100 crew members. The majority of the passengers were Egyptians and Sudanese returning home from the Saudi Hajj...